What is the difference between .au and .m4a?
- Extension
- .au
- .m4a
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Audacity
- Apple
- Description
- Audio file created by Audacity, a free, cross platform audio editor; uses a proprietary format that can only be opened by Audacity; saved as one of multiple audio data files for an Audacity project (.AUD).
- 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/basic
- audio/mp4
- Sample
- sample.au
- sample.m4a
- Wikipedia
- .au on Wikipedia
- .m4a on Wikipedia