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Convert your M4A files online. You can convert your M4A documents from any platform (Windows, Linux, macOS). No registration needed. Just drag and drop your M4A file on upload form, choose the desired output format and click convert button. Once conversion completed you can download your AIFF file.
You even can perform more advanced conversions. For example you can convert password protected documents. Just expand LoadOptions and enter the password of your file. Or you can add a watermark to the converted AIFF file. Expand the ConvertOptions and fill the fields for watermarking.
You can convert your M4A documents from anywhere, from any machine or even from a mobile device. The M4A converter is always available online and is completely free.
The M4A file format is an audio file created by using the AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) which is known as a lossy compression. The word M4A abbreviated as MPEG 4 Audio. These audio files usually have .m4a file extension. This is especially true of un-protected content. It may store various types of audio content, such as audiobooks, songs and podcasts. M4A is usually realized as more advanced format than MP3, which had not been typically designed for audio only. It is just an audio layer in MPEG 1 or 2 video files. M4A format is encrypted by FairPlay Digital Rights Management as were sold via the iTunes Store use the .m4p extension. The Apple iPhones use MPEG-4 audio for their ringtones but those audio files use the .m4r extension.
Read moreThe AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) is an uncompressed audio file format developed by Apple in 1998, but is based on EA IFF 85 (Standard for Interchange Format Files developed by Electronic Arts), a wrapper format used on Amiga systems. This file format comes up with a standard for storing sampled sounds. The format is good enough in flexibility, and enables the storage of monaural or multichannel sampled sounds at various sample rates and sample widths. Since the AIFF files are uncompressed, this thing making them bigger in size than other lossy formats such as MP3. These files consist of 2 channels of uncompressed stereo audio with 16 bits sample size, recorded at 44.1 khz. Because of high quality of audio, a 5 minute audio can take upto 50MB disk space which is similar to WAV file format.
Read moreYou can also convert M4A into many other file formats. Please see the complete list below.