Question

If you are the audio specialist for a development team, should you save the original sound files as .aiff format or MP3 format? Explain your selection.(minimum 150 words)

Answer 1

AIFF or MP3:

• While developing audio or saving an original sound file I would recommend you to select AIFF format which will be more advantageous as compared to the MP3 format which we will discuss in further points but first let me explain a bit about both the formats.
• AIFF is one of the oldest formats which was developed by Apple for making original audio and MP3 is one of the latest and most popular formats which is more efficient then AIFF an is also widely used in case of audio files.
• Using AIFF in saving the original audio is very important because it does not compress the audio file because while compressing the audio files the program might delete some notes of the audio files which goes unnoticed by the listener but by using the high-end pieces of equipment it can be known which note went missing.
• Hence, with MP3 the case is totally different, it makes use of the compression techniques which enhances the format of the file during which the size of the file gets extremely reduced and it sometimes deletes or discards some audio information to reduce the size of the files.
• While in AIFF compression does not happen and hence, the files are larger in size due to which most of the devices don't feel it compatible enough to store the audio in most of them.

Hence, to keep the audio files lossless it is very important to save it in such lossless format like AIFF, WAV, etc which does not lose any of the original sounds and conserves it in a particular format.