Audio Interchange Format audio
File type: Audio and sound file
Files with aif extension can be typically found as audio files in the Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF). Playable in most media players nowadays.
Found 7 different file type records with the same aif filename suffix.
File type category:
Audio and sound file
Date updated: July 13, 2025
The aif file extension is sometimes used for Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF), an audio file format developed by Apple. You can use this format to store high-quality sampled audio and musical instrument information.
Audio Interchange File Format (or AIFF) is a file format for storing digital audio (waveform) data. It supports a variety of bit resolutions, sample rates, and channels of audio. This format is very popular upon Apple platforms, and is widely used in professional programs that process digital audio waveforms.
Use any media player with support of AIFF format to playback .aif files.
A lot of multimedia converters support the AIFF format nowadays and can be used to export .aif files to something else.
Software applications that can open aif files:
Microsoft Windows
Software applications that can edit aif files:
Microsoft Windows
Software capable of saving aif files:
Microsoft Windows
Apps designed for playing aif files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Google Android
Software apps that convert aif files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Multiplatform
Software apps that import aif files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Software apps that export aif files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Software applications that handle other tasks involving aif files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Plugin, addon file
Date updated: September 27, 2026
The Beatnik Player was software from Sonic that provided audio playback and related multimedia features. An AIF file supplied plug-in functionality for the Beatnik Player rather than serving as a general-purpose audio file.
This is a legacy Windows plug-in format associated with the Beatnik Player software. The file should be used together with the player or the application that requested it.
Install or run the Windows version of Sonic's Beatnik Player, then use the AIF file where the player or its setup process expects a plug-in. It is not normally opened as a document or imported into a standard audio editor.
Because Beatnik Player is legacy software, current Windows systems may not support the plug-in without an appropriate older Windows environment.
An AIF file is a Beatnik Player plug-in, not a conventional audio recording, so it cannot sensibly be converted to a common audio format.
Retain the file with the Beatnik Player installation and use it with the original software.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving aif files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: September 27, 2026
The AIF file extension is associated with Micro Focus Object COBOL development tools. The file records breakpoint information used by Object COBOL Animator while a COBOL program is being debugged.
These details are supporting data for a COBOL IDE Project. The file works with the project's source and compiled program files and is normally maintained by the development environment.
COBOL IDE Project supports this file type on Microsoft Windows, while COBOL IDE Project for Linux supports it on Linux and Unix systems.
Open the file through the associated COBOL IDE Project on Microsoft Windows, or through COBOL IDE Project for Linux on Linux or Unix. It is normally opened as part of the project or debugging session rather than directly.
If the file is opened in a text editor, its debugger data may not be meaningful. Use the matching COBOL development environment to view or change the breakpoints.
An Object COBOL Animator breakpoint details file has no useful standalone conversion format. Its contents are debugger settings specific to the COBOL development environment.
When moving a project, copy the file with the rest of the project and open it in a compatible COBOL IDE. If compatibility is not available, recreate the breakpoints in the target environment.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving aif files:
Microsoft Windows
Linux/Unix
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: September 8, 2017
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
The aif file extension is associated with the OS/2, an operating system for IBM PC compatible computers, developed by IBM.
The aif file stores application information data from OS/2 system.
File type category:
Accounting, financial and tax file
Date updated: July 31, 2018
The aif file extension is associated with the QuickBooks, a line of business accounting software developed and marketed by Intuit.
The aif files contain Accountant's Review copy data from the QuickBooks program.
Use compatible tools to work with *.aif files.
Probably cannot converted to other formats.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving aif files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
File type category:
Program executable file
Date updated: September 27, 2026
The AIF file extension identifies a SmartWare executable program file. The file contains program code used by SmartWare.
It belongs to the SmartWare software environment on Microsoft Windows and is intended to be used as part of that software. Its contents are not normally useful outside SmartWare.
Open the file with the compatible version of SmartWare on Microsoft Windows. AIF files are program files and generally cannot be opened meaningfully with a text editor or a media player.
If SmartWare does not recognise the file, it may belong to a different application or may require the original SmartWare installation.
A SmartWare executable program file cannot normally be converted to another useful format. Keep the original file and use it with the compatible SmartWare installation.
Software applications that handle other tasks involving aif files:
Microsoft Windows
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: February 27, 2015
The aif file extension is associated with the EPOC operating system for smart devices developed by PSION. Later was EPOC renamed to Symbian OS.
The *.aif file stores application information.
Symbian OS is obsolete product.
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