Audio
AAC files
AAC audio saved as a bare stream without the MPEG-4 container. Some recorders and streaming tools produce .aac files; they carry little or no tag information.
- Full name
- Advanced Audio Coding (ADTS stream)
- Made by
- MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group)
- Introduced
- 1997
- File extension
- .aac
- Compression
- Lossy
- Best for
- Raw output from recorders and streaming tools
- Opens in
- Most players
- In FileFlip
- Opens
Good at
- Small files with good sound
Not so good at
- Little or no support for tags and artwork
AAC in FileFlip
FileFlip opens AAC files and converts them to other formats. It doesn’t save AAC.
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