What is the difference between .aac and .wve?
- Extension
- .aac
- .wve
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Bell Labs, Fraunhofer Institute, Dolby Labs, Sony and Nokia
- Psion
- 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.
- Psion 8-bit A-law. Used on Psion SIBO PDAs (Series 3 and similar). This format is deprecated in SoX, but will continue to be used in libsndfile.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-aac
- audio/x-pn-wave
- Sample
- sample.aac
- Wikipedia
- .aac on Wikipedia