What is the difference between .m4b and .m4a?
- Extension
- .m4b
- .m4a
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Apple
- Apple
- Description
- It is an audiobook file compressed using .AAC algorithm based on MPEG-4 container format. It is similar to .M4A file but its denoted as an audiobook and supporting audio players can bookmark it.
- 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-m4a
- audio/mp4
- Sample
- sample.m4b
- sample.m4a
- Wikipedia
- .m4b on Wikipedia
- .m4a on Wikipedia