AIFF, The AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) is an uncompressed audio file format developed by Apple in 1998, but is based on EA IFF 85 (Standard for Interchange Format Files developed by Electronic Arts), a wrapper format used on Amiga systems. This file format comes up with a standard for storing sampled sounds. The format is good enough in flexibility, and enables the storage of monaural or multichannel sampled sounds at various sample rates and sample widths. Since the AIFF files are uncompressed, this thing making them bigger in size than other lossy formats such as MP3. These files consist of 2 channels of uncompressed stereo audio with 16 bits sample size, recorded at 44.1 khz. Because of high quality of audio, a 5 minute audio can take upto 50MB disk space which is similar to WAV file format.