Convert m4a to alac

Conversion of m4a file format to alac file format ^beta

Search for m4a to alac converter or software able to handle these file types.

Convert MPEG-4 compressed audio to Apple Lossless Audio Codec encoded audio track.

We have found 6 software records in our database eligible for .m4a to .alac file format conversion.

m4a to alac conversion is in most cases actually not really needed, considering that modern .m4a files (especially those from iTunes) already contain ALAC encoded audio track inside the M4A container. Older .m4a files or files outside of iTunes might contain audio track in different format (AIFF most notably) and while encoding these files to ALAC format is doable, it serves no actual purpose as the AIFF format is compressed with lossy method already and thus of reduced quality.

Updated: July 20, 2023

Microsoft Windows software - convert m4a to alac on Windows

Apple iTunes for Windows

Multimedia file manager and library for Apple users

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
Convert from m4a file	Yes, Apple iTunes for Windows supports m4a file conversion as a source file type.	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
to alac file	Yes, Apple iTunes for Windows supports alac file conversion as a target file type.	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No

The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned m4a to alac. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.

Blaze Media Pro

A multimedia converter

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
m4a	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
alac	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

xrecode

An audio converter and audio-grabber for Windows

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
m4a	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
alac	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

Apple macOS / Mac OS X software - convert m4a to alac on OS X

Apple iTunes for Mac

Program used to organize and plays your digital music and video

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
m4a	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
alac	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No

Max for Mac

A free audio converter and audio CD grabber for OS X

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
m4a	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
alac	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

Multiplatform software - convert m4a to alac on any platform

Bigasoft Audio Converter

Audio converter for Windows and Mac

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
m4a	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
alac	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No

Additional links: Open m4a file, Open alac file

M4A

Files with m4a extension are audio files stored in MPEG-4 (MP4) container and use AAC (Advanced Audio Coding), or Apple Lossless (ALAC) audio compression. M4A is very popular on Mac computers, because it is default audio format used by iTunes. M4A is also default audio format for Apple portable devices (iPod, iPhone, iPad).

ALAC

Files with alac extension are audio tracks encoded using Apple Lossless Audio Codec and typically found as part of CAF or more frequently M4A audio files from iTunes.

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