| Format introduction | Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates. AAC has been standardized by ISO and IEC, as part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 specifications. |
| Technical details | AAC supports inclusion of 48 full-bandwidth audio channels in one stream plus 16 low frequency effects channels, up to 16 "coupling" or dialog channels, and up to 16 data streams. The quality for stereo is satisfactory to modest requirements at 96 kbit/s in joint stereo mode; however, hi-fi transparency demands data rates of at least 128 kbit/s. |
| File extension | .aac |
| MIME | audio/aac |
| Developed by | Bell Labs, Fraunhofer Institute etc. |
| Type of format | Audio compression format |
| Associated programs | foobar2000, AIMP, DirectShow, QuickTime, VLC media player. |
| Wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding |
| AAC to MP3 | convert from audio to audio |
| AAC to WAV | convert from audio to audio |
| AAC to OGG | convert from audio to audio |
| AAC to WMA | convert from audio to audio |
| AAC to AU | convert from audio to audio |
| AAC to FLAC | convert from audio to audio |
| AAC to M4A | convert from audio to audio |
| AAC to MKA | convert from audio to audio |
| AAC to AIFF | convert from audio to audio |
| AAC to OPUS | convert from audio to audio |
| AAC to RA | convert from audio to audio |
| AAC to AMR | convert from audio to audio |
| AVI to AAC | convert from video to audio |
| 3GP to AAC | convert from video to audio |
| M2V to AAC | convert from video to audio |
| MPEG to AAC | convert from video to audio |
| WMV to AAC | convert from video to audio |
| MP4 to AAC | convert from video to audio |
| MKV to AAC | convert from video to audio |
| M2TS to AAC | convert from video to audio |
| WEBM to AAC | convert from video to audio |
| FLV to AAC | convert from video to audio |
| SWF to AAC | convert from video to audio |
| ASF to AAC | convert from video to audio |
| MOV to AAC | convert from video to audio |
| M4V to AAC | convert from video to audio |
| RM to AAC | convert from video to audio |
| VOB to AAC | convert from video to audio |
| OGV to AAC | convert from video to audio |
| MP3 to AAC | convert from audio to audio |
| WAV to AAC | convert from audio to audio |
| OGG to AAC | convert from audio to audio |
| WMA to AAC | convert from audio to audio |
| AU to AAC | convert from audio to audio |
| FLAC to AAC | convert from audio to audio |
| M4A to AAC | convert from audio to audio |
| MKA to AAC | convert from audio to audio |
| AIFF to AAC | convert from audio to audio |
| OPUS to AAC | convert from audio to audio |
| RA to AAC | convert from audio to audio |
| AMR to AAC | convert from audio to audio |