What is the difference between mp4 and m4a

To be stated as it is a way of storing or representing the audio files in digital forms. It is one of the audio file formats which is present in the market. Although the popularity of the MP3 audio format may have decreased still it is preferred many times.

It was developed by the Fraunhofer Society. It supports only audio file formats. MP3 allows a high compression of the audio file size, deferring the quality of the audio file.

The special feature of the MP3 is that it helps in decreasing the size of the audio file to almost about the tenth of the space earlier. The extended form of MP3 is mp2, and the file extension for the same is. It is said to be a MPEG-4 container format.

But why Nero is so different with sub and other is a mistery for the umanity! Nero uses VOBSubs stored as a private stream. You can store tags in the mp4 m4a container, but not in raw aac, which contains the bare audio data. Think of it as the equivalent in mp4 to what mkv and mka are for matroska. Sorry, I had to go see about a girl. Ciao to you midnightsun! Another Italian guy! I'm so happy! The FAQ that Baldrick had linked is very good!

I very recently last week bought an iPod for my sister so now I have iTunes available, but I haven't played with it a lot so at this stage I can't comment on Apple vs Ahead as far as AAC encoders are concerned. The last tests I saw seemed to indicate that iTunes was the best AAC encoder but things change so you never know. Depends what kind of aac. Current version of iTunes as far as I know can't do he aac or vbr encoding. Then again ipods don't support he aac, but lack of vbr could be an issue.

It's a problem, I think. The my friends that have the I-Pod and I-Tunes think so too! However, when I will come back I will try I-Tunes!

Similar Threads. So when it comes to collect music, WAV is not favored as it would take too much space. But all such issue can be fixed provided you own a right video converter in hand. MP4 versus. The m4a files in the standard for iTunes DRM-free, unprotected content while the.

Q: Is there a difference between M4A audio files and AAC audio files or are they exactly the same thing but with a different file extension? Why is that? A: Digital Rights Management is included in these files to restrict users' ability to share the files. Apple M4P files were sold with a bit rate, which is much lower than what is required by M4A files with a kbps speed.