What is the difference between .ra and .m4a?
- Extension
- .ra
- .m4a
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- RealNetworks
- Apple
- Description
- RealPlayer created RA for audio streaming. It makes use of various audio codecs from those that deliver high-fidelity sounds to those that record low bitrate audio data. Radio stations mainly used it for online streaming, but current formats have overthrown 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/vnd.rn-realaudio
- audio/mp4
- Sample
- sample.m4a
- Wikipedia
- .ra on Wikipedia
- .m4a on Wikipedia