| Name | MP3 | AIFF |
| Full name | MP3 - MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III | AIFF - Audio Interchange File Format |
| File extension | .mp3 | .aiff, .aif, .aifc |
| MIME type | audio/mpeg, audio/MPA, audio/mpa-robust | audio/x-aiff, audio/aiff |
| Developed by | Fraunhofer Institute | Apple Inc. |
| Type of format | Digital audio | audio file format, container format |
| Description | MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is an audio coding format for digital audio that uses lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio streaming or storage and a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on most digital audio players. | Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices. The format was developed by Apple Inc. in 1988 based on Electronic Arts' Interchange File Format (IFF, widely used on Amiga systems) and is most commonly used on Apple Macintosh computer systems. |
| Technical details | Lossy compression is designed to reduce significantly the amount of data required to represent the audio recording and still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio. For example, an MP3 file created using the setting of 128 kbit/s will result in a file about 1/11 the size of the CD file created from the original audio source. | The audio data in most AIFF files is uncompressed pulse-code modulation (PCM). This type of AIFF file uses much more disk space than lossy formats like MP3—about 10 MB for one minute of stereo audio at a sample rate of 44.1 kHz and a bit depth of 16 bits. There is also a compressed variant of AIFF known as AIFF-C or AIFC, with variously defined compression codecs. |
| File conversion | MP3 conversion | AIFF conversion |
| Associated programs | VLC media player, MPlayer, Winamp, foobar2000. | iTunes |
| Wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Interchange_File_Format |
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