- Extension
- .aac
- .man
- Format
- Binary
- Text
- Category
- Audio
- Document
- Developer
- Bell Labs, Fraunhofer Institute, Dolby Labs, Sony and Nokia
- AT&T Bell Labs
- 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 Unix Manual Page (.man) file contains documentation text formatted with troff/groff macros, typically using the man or mdoc macro package. These files are the source for the 'man' command documentation system used on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. They describe commands, system calls, library functions, and other system components.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-aac
- application/x-troff-man
