.M4A File Extension

Are you having difficulty opening a file that ends with .M4A? Such files can be executed only by certain programs. If you cannot open the .M4A file, it can be due to the following reasons: either you do not have an appropriate program to open it, or your file association is corrupted. For more information about this extension, please read the article below.

What is a .M4A file?

.M4A file belongs to the category of Audio Files used in operating systems such as Windows 11, 10, Windows 7, Windows 8 / 8.1, Windows Vista, Windows XP.

m4a

Developer: Apple

File Type: MPEG-4 Audio File

Category: Audio Files

Format: Binary

.M4A file is associated with MPEG-4 Audio File developed by Apple, has a Binary Format and belongs to Audio Files category.

An M4A file is an audio file that stores various types of audio content (songs, podcasts, audiobooks, and so on). An M4A file is saved in the MPEG-4 format and is encoded using AAC or ALAC.

Additional data

MPEG-4 is considered a multimedia container format that works with video, audio, subtitles, and pictures encoded in numerous codecs. MPEG-4 video files have a .mp4 extension. However, a MPEG-4 file can additionally only contain audio, saved with a .m4a extension (MPEG-4 Audio).

M4A files are more distributed among Apple's iTunes Store audio content. This content is encoded through AAC compression, significantly reducing file size. Copyrighted songs have a .m4p extension.

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