Found 1 record for the .AAC file extension name
.flac - Audio files encoded by Flac - free lossless audio codec
.cda - CD Audio track
.wv - WavPack lossless compressed audio file
.amr - Adaptive Multi-Rate compressed audio
.gp3 - Guitar Pro 3 project
.dvf - Sony DV voice file
.mus - Music file format
.aa - Audible Audio file - downloadable audio books
file extension AAC - Advanced audio coding
File extension AAC description:
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a lossy digital audio
compression format. Because of its exceptional performance and quality,
AAC is at the core of the MPEG-4, 3GPP and 3GPP2 specifications and is
the audio codec of choice for Internet, wireless and digital broadcast
arenas.
AAC was designed as an improved-performance codec relative to
MP3 (which was specified in MPEG-1 and MPEG-2) by the ISO/IEC in
11172-3 and 13818-3.
AAC provides audio encoding that compresses much more
efficiently than older formats, such as MP3 or OGG, yet delivers
quality rivaling that of uncompressed CD audio.
Features of AAC format
AAC was promoted as the successor to MP3 for audio coding at
medium to high bitrates. When compared side-by-side, AAC proves itself
worthy of replacing MP3 as the new Internet audio standard the
advantages over MP3 are:
- Improved compression provides higher-quality results with smaller file sizes.
- Support for multichannel audio, providing up to 48 full frequency channels.
- Higher resolution audio, yielding sampling rates up to 96 kHz.
- Improved decoding efficiency, requiring less processing power for decode.
History of AAC
Advanced Audio Coding was developed with the cooperation and contributions of companies mainly including Dolby, Fraunhofer (FhG), AT&T, Sony and Nokia, and was officially declared an international standard by the Moving Pictures Experts Group in April of 1997.
AAC was written into specification as Part 7 of the MPEG-2 standard, and again into Part 3 of the MPEG-4 standard. As such, AAC can be referred to as MPEG-2 Part 7 and MPEG-4 Part 3 depending on its implementation, but is most often referred to as MPEG-4 AAC, or AAC for short.
However, MP4 usually refers to the format described in MPEG-4 Part 14, which is a container format for carriage of video and audio data.
Associated applications to file extension AAC:
Company / developer:
ImTOO Software Studio
ImTOO DPG Converter
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Company / developer: Xilisoft Corporation
Xilisoft iPod Rip
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All formats compatible with iPod can be transferred in this iPod copy software. Besides all these, this iPod copy, iPod backup software can also transfer files among multiple iPods (Copy iPod to iPod) and manage your iPhone as a portable hard disk. Owning the most ideal solution to manage, rip, copy, backup iPod/iPhone on personal computer, Xilisoft iPod Rip simplifies your iPod management greatly.
- Backup iPod to PC by ripping iPod files to local disk (iPod to PC)
- Copy computer files to iPod and iPhone (PC to iPod)
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- Transfer files between different iPod (iPod to iPod)
Company / developer: Xilisoft Corporation
Xilisoft Video Converter
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Company / developer: Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Company / developer: Apple, Inc.
iTunes
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Company / developer: Cucusoft, Inc.
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Company / developer: Cucusoft, Inc.
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Company / developer: Audacity
This editor can record and play sounds and import and export WAV, AIFF, MP3, and OGG files. Edit your sounds using cut, copy, and paste features (with unlimited undo functionality), mix tracks, or apply effects to your recordings. The program also has a built-in amplitude-envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode, and a frequency-analysis window for audio-analysis applications. Built-in effects include bass boost, wah wah, and noise removal, and the program also supports VST plug-in effects.
Version 1.2.6 enables FLAC support and contains some bug fixes.
Features
This is a list of features in Audacity, the free audio editor.
Recording
Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidiscs. With some sound cards, it can also capture streaming audio.
- Record from microphone, line input, or other sources.
- Dub over existing tracks to create multi-track recordings.
- Record up to 16 channels at once (requires multi-channel hardware).
- Level meters can monitor volume levels before, during, and after recording.
Import and Export
Import sound files, edit them, and combine them with other files or new recordings. Export your recordings in several common file formats.
- Import and export WAV, AIFF, AU, and Ogg Vorbis files.
- Import MPEG audio (including MP2 and MP3 files) with libmad.
- Export MP3s with the optional LAME encoder library.
- Create WAV or AIFF files suitable for burning to CD.
- Import and export all file formats supported by libsndfile.
- Open raw (headerless) audio files using the “Import Raw” command.
- Note: Audacity does not currently support WMA, AAC, or most other proprietary or restricted file formats.
Editing
- Easy editing with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete.
- Use unlimited Undo (and Redo) to go back any number of steps.
- Very fast editing of large files.
- Edit and mix an unlimited number of tracks.
- Use the Drawing tool to alter individual sample points.
- Fade the volume up or down smoothly with the Envelope tool.
Effects
- Change the pitch without altering the tempo, or vice-versa.
- Remove static, hiss, hum, or other constant background noises.
- Alter frequencies with Equalization, FFT Filter, and Bass Boost effects.
- Adjust volumes with Compressor, Amplify, and Normalize effects.
- Other built-in effects include:
- Echo
- Phaser
- Wahwah
- Reverse
Sound Quality
- Record and edit 16-bit, 24-bi
Company / developer: Peter Pawlowski
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Features
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- Full unicode support.
- Advanced tagging capabilities.
- Support for transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component (requires external commandline encoder executables for different output formats).
- ReplayGain support - both playback and calculation.
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
- Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.
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Features :
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Expanded Controls
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Play Everything
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Company / developer: Nullsoft
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