• daggermoon@piefed.world
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    20 hours ago

    AAC always confused me. I’ve seen them use the extensions .m4a, .mp4, and .aac. But they’re all different are they not? I still have a few albums I downloaded on iTunes back in the day and they’re all .m4a. More confusing however, ALAC also uses the .m4a extension. I think Apple is bad at naming things.

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      13 hours ago

      They are just file extensions that refer to containers. .m4a and .mp4 use an MP4 container which allows for metadata while .aac is raw.