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The 'Music' category is merely a guideline on commercialized uses of a particular format, not a technical assessment of its capabilities. For example, MP3 and AAC dominate the personal audio market in terms of market share, though many other formats are comparably well suited to fill this role from a purely technical standpoint.
The data compression software for encoding into ALAC files, Apple Lossless Encoder, was introduced into the Mac OS X Core Audio framework on April 28, 2004, together with the QuickTime 6.5.1 update, thus making it available in iTunes since version 4.5 and above, and its replacement, the Music application. [8]
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression. It was designed to be the successor of the MP3 format and generally achieves higher sound quality than MP3 at the same bit rate. [4] AAC has been standardized by ISO and IEC as part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 specifications.
The most widely used audio coding formats are MP3 and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), both of which are lossy formats based on modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) and perceptual coding algorithms. Lossless audio coding formats such as FLAC and Apple Lossless are sometimes available, though at the cost of larger files.
Audio file icons of various formats. An audio file format is a file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system. The bit layout of the audio data (excluding metadata) is called the audio coding format and can be uncompressed, or compressed to reduce the file size, often using lossy compression.
AAC Ogg REX2 AIFF FLAC Others Renoise: No No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes MP4, MP4A, CAF, SFZ RiffWorks: No No No Export No No Export Yes No No Rosegarden: No No Yes [9] Yes [10] Import [10] Unknown Import [10] Unknown Unknown Import [10] Csound, Mup, MuxicXML, h2song [11] Samplitude: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes WMA, RealAudio ...
FLAC ALAC WAV AIFF AAC MP3 WMA Vorbis DRM Preview (seconds) Stream purchases 7digital: 81 [2] Yes [3] Web, Android 24-bit No No No 320 kbps 320 kbps No No No 30 Yes Amazon Music: 90 [4] Yes Web, Android [5] No No No No No 256 kbps No No No 30: Yes Bandcamp: 18.1: No Web 24-bit 24-bit 24-bit 24-bit Yes Yes No Yes No Full Yes Beatport: 9 [6] Yes ...
MP3, WMA and AAC audio files can optionally be encoded in VBR, while Opus and Vorbis are encoded in VBR by default. [1] [2] [3] Variable bit rate encoding is also commonly used on MPEG-2 video, MPEG-4 Part 2 video (Xvid, DivX, etc.), MPEG-4 Part 10/H.264 video, Theora, Dirac and other video compression formats.