What is the difference between .aac and .flac?
- Extension
- .aac
- .flac
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Bell Labs, Fraunhofer Institute, Dolby Labs, Sony and Nokia
- Xiph.Org Foundation
- Description
- Compressed audio file similar to an .MP3 file, but offers several performance improvements; examples include a higher coding efficiency for both stationary and transient signals, a simpler filterbank, and better handling of frequencies above 16 kHz; maintains quality nearly indistinguishable from the original audio source.
- A FLAC file is an audio file compressed in the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) format, which is an open source lossless audio compression format. It is similar to an .MP3 file, but is compressed without any loss in quality or loss of any original audio data.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-aac
- audio/flac
- Sample
- sample.aac
- sample.flac
- Wikipedia
- .aac on Wikipedia
- .flac on Wikipedia