What is the difference between .aiff and .m4a?
- Extension
- .aiff
- .m4a
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Apple
- Apple
- Description
- High-quality audio file created using the (AIFF) file format; contains CD-quality audio stored in a non-compressed, lossless format, similar .WAV files; commonly used to burn audio CDs.
- 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.aiff
- sample.m4a
- Wikipedia
- .aiff on Wikipedia
- .m4a on Wikipedia