AAC Converter

Convert AAC audio files to and from other popular formats

AAC is the audio file format used by Apple in their popular iTunes Music Store. It is an audio codec used increasingly for downloaded music files, streaming-media, and satellite-radio applications. We highly recommend AAC if your playback equipment supports it.

AAC stands for either MPEG2 Advanced Audio Coding or MPEG4 Advanced Audio Coding. The MPEG2 audio-encoding standard of the format is not backward-compatible with MPEG1 audio. MPEG2 AAC can produce better audio quality than MP3 using less physical space for the files. MPEG4 AAC can produce better quality and smaller files than MPEG2 AAC.

Although AAC is the name for the general codec, it’s an umbrella term that applies to several subformats that use AAC encoding. True ACC files contain only music, no ID tags, whereas files using the MP4 or M4A subformats can include tags. Copy-protected AAC files, such as those downloaded from iTunes, end in the M4P file extension.

The differences between the AAC and MP3 codecs: AAC-encoded files sound as good as or better than MP3 files encoded at the same or even a higher bit rate. For example, a 128 kbit/s AAC file should sound as good as or better than a 160 kbit/s MP3 file. Because the bit rate is lower, the AAC file will also be smaller than the MP3 file. AAC files allow you to store the most music on your hard disk or iPod. The High Quality AAC setting creates files that are usually less than 1 MB for each minute of music.

To use AAC, install the MP4 & AAC Decoder along with one of the free MP4 encoders available at the dBpowerAMP Web site or use Apple’s iTunes software. Sometimes many of us want to convert AAC files from or to other formats(eg. convert AAC to MP3 for playing on your MP3 players). There are many audio converter available on the internet, and some support these functions. Following we list some related AAC converters.

How to convert M4A to MP3?
How to convert M4P to MP3?
How to convert AAC to MP3?
How to convert MP3 to WAV?
How to convert WMA to MP3?
How to convert WAV to MP3?
How to convert MPEG4 to MP3?
How to convert MIDI to MP3 or WAVE?