AAC at a given bitrate is better than MP3

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In Reply to: aac or mp3? posted by vinyl survivor on April 12, 2017 at 20:44:10:

and files with the .m4a extension are typically encoded as AAC.
I've listened to various internet radio streams, some allow you to choose bitrate and encoding. For a given bitrate, I have always found AAC to sound better. For example AAC 64kbps is noticeably better sounding than MP3 64kbps.
Music downloads from Apple are 256kbps AAC (.m4a file extension).

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Topic - aac or mp3? - vinyl survivor 20:44:10 04/12/17 (4)

Thanks for the replies. Nt - vinyl survivor 17:13:46 04/13/17 (0)

AAC at a given bitrate is better than MP3 - AbeCollins 12:37:50 04/13/17 (1)

RE: AAC at a given bitrate is better than MP3 - Todd Krieger 13:23:48 04/13/17 (0)

I'd go for m4a - it can contain the Apple Lossless (ALAC) format, which would be best quality mentioned [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 00:24:26 04/13/17 (0)

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AAC at a given bitrate is better than MP3 - AbeCollins 12:37:50 04/13/17 (1)

RE: AAC at a given bitrate is better than MP3 - Todd Krieger 13:23:48 04/13/17 (0)

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