What is the difference between .mp2 and .m4a?
- Extension
- .mp2
- .m4a
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Moving Picture Experts Group
- Apple
- Description
- Audio format that uses MPEG-1 Layer II compression to reduce the file size; mainly replaced by the ubiquitous .MP3 format, but is still used for digital radio and digital television broadcasts.
- 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/mpeg
- audio/mp4
- Sample
- sample.mp2
- sample.m4a
- Wikipedia
- .mp2 on Wikipedia
- .m4a on Wikipedia