M4A is the new replacement for the older MP3 audio format and
includes many enhancement and improvements. Many popular applications and
hardware devices already support M4A. This site is dedicated to helping
you learn more about M4A and MP4 audio files. Hopefully you will begin to use
this popular, new audio file format.
What does M4A stand for?
Many people have questions
about M4A, since it is relatively new. M4A stands for MPEG 4 Audio, and it is
a popular file extension used to represent audio files.
\Most people are
familiar with MP3 and how it shrinks down the file size of songs and other
audio files. M4A and MP4 do the same thing as MP3 does, but even better.
Quality is better and file sizes are usually smaller than MP3 files. But
unlike MP3, no licenses or payments are required to be able to stream or
distribute content in M4A format (unlike MP3 which requires you to pay
royalties on content you distribute in MP3 format). This fact alone, is more
than enough reason (due to the extreme cost savings) to use M4A files instead
of MP3 files. In addition, M4A files tend to sound much better than MP3 files
encoded at the same bitrate.
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