AIFF to WAV Converter – Same Audio, New Container

A Mac session exports AIFF, but the Windows DAW, hardware sampler, or game engine on the other end only accepts WAV. This free aiff to wav converter repackages the same uncompressed audio into a WAV file — a container swap, not a re-encode — so, for 16-bit sources, the sound stays bit-for-bit identical (output is always 16-bit WAV, so higher-bit-depth sources are narrowed to 16-bit) and the file simply becomes readable where it was not before. Everything runs in your browser, so your audio is never uploaded and no signup is needed. The honest limit: this tool handles standard uncompressed AIFF, not every compressed AIFF-C variant, and sampler loop metadata does not always survive the move.

How to use this aiff to wav converter

Same sound, Windows-friendly wrapper.

1Drop in your AIFF

Choose a .aif or .aiff file from a Mac session, Logic, or GarageBand.

2Keep the same quality

The sample rate and channel layout carry over; output is 16-bit WAV, so a 24-bit studio export is written as 16-bit.

3Download the WAV

Save the WAV and drop it straight into the DAW, sampler, or engine that refused the AIFF.

Why this aiff to wav converter loses zero quality

Both formats hold the same raw audio. Only the wrapper — and the byte order — changes.

Lossless by construction

AIFF and WAV both store uncompressed PCM samples, so converting between them at 16-bit and the same sample rate changes no sample value at all.

Byte order handled for you

AIFF stores samples big-endian and WAV stores them little-endian; the conversion swaps the order transparently, which is why a converted file no longer plays as static in a Windows tool.

Same size, honestly stated

Expect a WAV about the same size as the AIFF — roughly 10 MB per minute of CD-quality stereo — because no compression is involved in either direction.

Private by design

The repackaging happens on your own device, so studio masters and unreleased takes never leave your browser.

AIFF to WAV Converter FAQs

Short, direct answers to the questions readers ask most.

At 16-bit, no. Both formats hold uncompressed PCM samples — only the container and byte order change — but output is always 16-bit WAV, so higher-bit-depth sources are narrowed to 16-bit.

Almost none in sound: AIFF is Apple’s container (big-endian, from 1988) and WAV is Microsoft and IBM’s container (little-endian, from 1991). The difference is which platform and software treat the file as native.

Because the program reads the samples in the wrong byte order. Converting to WAV fixes that permanently, since WAV’s little-endian order is what Windows tools expect.

Not always. AIFF instrument and marker chunks do not map cleanly onto WAV’s cue chunks in every tool, so check loop points after converting if your sampler depends on them.

Yes. It runs entirely in your browser — no account, no signup, and nothing uploaded.