What is M4A?
MPEG-4 Audio
An MPEG-4 audio container (usually holding AAC) used by Apple's iTunes and Voice Memos, offering better quality than MP3 at the same size.
Advantages
- Better quality than MP3 at equal bitrate
- Standard in the Apple ecosystem
Limitations
- Less universal than MP3
- Lossy
Best used for
Apple audio; convert to MP3 for maximum compatibility.
- Extensions
- .m4a
- MIME type
- audio/mp4
- Compression
- Lossy
Free M4A tools
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