Just wondering if .M4A is a lossy or lossless audio codec
Lossy.
I had a look on that page, but I wasn’t able to determine what it is was between the two. How do you know exactly?
Well, M4A is a container so I guess you could put lossless stuff in there. But the only reason to put audio into that container is to make it smaller than let’s say a compressed FLAC. So if someone uses .M4A for lossless audio, that person/company is dumb.
Why you are asking?
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I had to recently do .m4a because iphone
checks out, close thread.
Two cents: M4A files supplied through iTunes or any Apple-specific audio encoding software could either contain lossy AAC audio or lossless ALAC, depending on either what one purchased or the settings used when they ripped/transcoded their audio. Wikipedia for reference .
I rest my case.
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