What is the difference between .vqf and .aac?
- Extension
- .vqf
- .aac
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Yamaha
- Bell Labs, Fraunhofer Institute, Dolby Labs, Sony and Nokia
- Description
- A VQF file, standing for TwinVQ (Vector Quantized) Audio File, is a compressed audio format developed by NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) in the late 1990s. It was designed to offer higher compression rates compared to the more commonly used MP3 format, aiming to produce smaller file sizes while retaining a similar audio quality.
- Compressed audio file similar to an .MP3 file, but offers several performance improvements; examples include a higher coding efficiency for both stationary and transient signals, a simpler filterbank, and better handling of frequencies above 16 kHz; maintains quality nearly indistinguishable from the original audio source.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-twinvq
- audio/x-aac
- Sample
- sample.vqf
- sample.aac
- Wikipedia
- .vqf on Wikipedia
- .aac on Wikipedia