diff --git a/media-sound/abcde/abcde-2.9.3.ebuild b/media-sound/abcde/abcde-2.9.3.ebuild
index ab9d4c57800e6..5711759636513 100644
--- a/media-sound/abcde/abcde-2.9.3.ebuild
+++ b/media-sound/abcde/abcde-2.9.3.ebuild
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ LICENSE="GPL-2"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86"
 # Enable MP3 related flags by default
-IUSE="aac cdr flac +id3tag +lame mac musepack musicbrainz normalize opus replaygain speex vorbis wavpack"
+IUSE="aac aiff cdr flac +id3tag +lame mac musepack musicbrainz normalize opus replaygain speex vorbis wavpack"
 
 # See `grep :: abcde-musicbrainz-tool` output for USE musicbrainz dependencies
 RDEPEND="
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 			media-video/atomicparsley-wez
 		)
 	)
+	aiff? ( virtual/ffmpeg )
 	cdr? ( virtual/cdrtools )
 	flac? ( media-libs/flac )
 	id3tag? (
diff --git a/media-sound/abcde/metadata.xml b/media-sound/abcde/metadata.xml
index 658ab9a36efa4..3069c6bba43c6 100644
--- a/media-sound/abcde/metadata.xml
+++ b/media-sound/abcde/metadata.xml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 		<name>Gentoo Sound project</name>
 	</maintainer>
 	<use>
+		<flag name="aiff">Enable support for Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) output encoding</flag>
 		<flag name="id3tag">Support ID3, ID3v2 tagging of audio files</flag>
 		<flag name="mac">Enable support for Monkey's Audio files</flag>
 		<flag name="normalize">Add support for normalizing audio file volume levels</flag>