Source format
AAC
Advanced Audio Coding (ADTS stream)
The successor to MP3, used by YouTube, Apple Music and digital broadcasting. An .aac file contains the “bare” audio stream, with no container.
- Best for
- Good-quality audio in light files.
- Limits
- Some programs prefer the same audio inside an M4A.
- Compression
- lossy
- Typical bitrate
- 96-256 kbps
- Compatibility
- excellent
- Extensions
- .aac
- Since
- 1997