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Convert m4a to aac

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About M4A

MPEG-4 Audio

An audio-only MPEG-4 file, the format iTunes and Apple Music use. It usually holds lossy AAC and sometimes lossless ALAC. Use it for iPhones, Macs and iTunes libraries, where it plays and tags natively.

About AAC

Advanced Audio Coding

The lossy codec standardized in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 as a successor to MP3, generally sounding better at the same bitrate. A .aac file is a bare ADTS stream without the MPEG-4 container an M4A has. Use it for players and streaming tools that want a raw AAC stream; for a music library, M4A holds the same audio with better tagging.