What is the difference between .caf and .m4a?
- Extension
- .caf
- .m4a
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Apple
- Apple
- Description
- Digital audio format based on Apple's Core Audio technology; stores audio data as well as text annotations, markers, channel layouts, and other information; similar to an .AIFF or .WAVE file, but does not have a 4GB size limit and can store any number of audio channels.
- 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/x-caf
- audio/mp4
- Sample
- sample.caf
- sample.m4a
- Wikipedia
- .caf on Wikipedia
- .m4a on Wikipedia