Everything you might want to listen to or to watch is available on the Internet these days. But then there are always certain things that you want to keep closer to
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A file with the M4A extension is an MPEG-4 audio file. Mostly you'll find them in Apple Music as song downloads.
Many M4A files are encoded with the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) codec, which helps reduce the size, some, however, use the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC).
When downloading a music file from Music (former iTunes) that is copy protected, it'll be saved with the M4P extension.
M4A files use the same MPEG-4 container format as MP4 files, however, M4A files can only hold audio.