What is the difference between .aifc and .m4a?
- Extension
- .aifc
- .m4a
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Apple Inc.
- Apple
- Description
- It contains CD-quality audio file commonly used in gaming consoles and media players. AIFC can be compared to .WAV file that has been compressed to reduce file size. Therefore, it may incorporate ALAW, ULAW, or G722 compression.
- An M4A file is an audio file created in the MPEG-4 format, a multimedia container format used to store compressed audio and video data. It contains audio encoded with either the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) codec or the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC).
- MIME Type
- audio/aiff
- audio/mp4
- Sample
- sample.aifc
- sample.m4a
- Wikipedia
- .aifc on Wikipedia
- .m4a on Wikipedia