Upload an MP3 audio file and save it as M4A for players, messengers, editing, publishing or archiving.
MP3 is the most common music (sound) file format. This format was developed by Fraunhofer IIS and Thomson. This format for storing and transmitting music (sound) files in digital form uses signal compression technology. That is why, unlike the previously widespread WAV format, MP3 files (full name - MPEG Audio Layer-3) are much smaller in size, and their sound quality is much higher. The MP3 format was one of the first and most successful sound compression methods. One of the important characteristics of this process is the degree of compression, that is, how much data is transferred per unit of time. Standard MP3 encoding is from 64 to 320 kb / s.
ALAC is the format of a small specialized program called an audio codec. Its main task is to compress a file with digital music without losing its quality. The name of the format created by Apple's IT giant is Apple's abbreviation Lossless Audio Codec. This format may also be called ALE (from Apple Lossless Encoder). Files in this format can play devices even with limited computing resources - such as an iPod. When compressing a file in this format, it is approximately 40-60% of the original file. Now almost every multimedia player based on the libavcodec library is able to play ALAC format files.
Supported formats
This converter shows the accepted source formats and the result format.
Input files
MP2
MP3
MPGA
M4A
M4P
FLAC
APE
AAC
AC3
AIF
AIFF
RA
RM
CAF
VOC
OGA
OGG
WMA
WAV
OPUS
MPC
3GA
MKA
KAR
MMF
M4R
AMR
EAC3
WEBA
IMY
MXMF
OTA
RTTTL
RTX
XMF
MID
MIDI
AWB
Result
M4A
A damaged file or a non-standard codec can still fail even when the extension is supported.
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