About AAC
LossyAdvanced Audio Coding
Efficient successor to MP3
AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) was designed to replace MP3 and is used by YouTube, Apple and digital radio. An .aac file is a raw AAC stream without an MP4 container.
- Strengths
- Better sound than MP3 at the same bitrate, and broadly supported.
- Limitations
- Raw .aac files cannot hold cover art and seek less precisely than M4A.