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Anyfile converts an AAC audio to an M4A audio for free, right in your browser: the file is never uploaded.
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| Sound quality | No further loss (what AAC already left out doesn’t come back) |
|---|---|
| Tags and cover art | Title, artist, album and cover carried over where M4A holds them; lyrics and some rarer tags aren’t yet |
| File size | About the same |
When to use M4A: Music on Apple devices, iPhone voice memos and ringtone sources.
.aac
A lossy codec standardised by MPEG in 1997 as the successor to MP3, usually sounding better at the same bit rate. A bare .aac file holds the raw stream without an MP4 wrapper.
Streaming audio, digital radio and soundtracks taken from video files.
Opens in Music, QuickTime, VLC, Windows Media Player, most phones
About AAC files.m4a
An MPEG-4 file that holds only audio, usually AAC and sometimes Apple Lossless (ALAC). Apple popularised it for songs bought and ripped in iTunes.
Music on Apple devices, iPhone voice memos and ringtone sources.
Opens in Music, QuickTime, iPhone, Windows Media Player, VLC
About M4A filesGoing the other way? Convert M4A to AAC
Everything that converts to M4A
Need to change it first? Open the audio editor
Drop your AAC file on this page, or choose it. Anyfile converts it on your device in a moment and the M4A downloads straight away. To change it first, open it in the audio editor.
No. The file is read and converted by your own browser, and nothing is sent to a server. You can check: open your browser’s developer tools, go to Network, and convert a file. No upload appears.
M4A is a compressed format, and Anyfile saves at high quality, so the difference is very hard to notice.
Yes. Drop them together and you get one ZIP with every M4A inside.