What would be the advantages of m4a compare to WAV, MP3, OGG Vorbis or FLAC which are already supported by MuseScore ?
m4a is just a container, like OGG, what type of compression would you like if m4a would be added ?
There are dozens of Audio file format and containers. I don't think MuseScore should be in the business to export to all of them. There are very good converters out there and they will do a better job than MuseScore.
It seems AAC is the most commonly used audio format in a m4a container... "Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a proprietary audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression." (from Wikipedia .
In addition to what they previously said, I think it is pretty easy for you to convert m4a files into mp3.
There's online websites for converting files, in addition to programs for Windows OS and Mac
convert m4a files into mp3
this is not really the point, MuseScore can export mp3 already, this request is for exporting m3a. But most probably there are enough programs out there to convert mp3 to m4a too ;-)
I understand. This is logical. I hope I can find a free offline conversion program. (Uploading and downloading to and from a website is time consuming and annoying)
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Why the "postponed" status?
In reply to Why the "postponed" status? by RobFog
So that someone can change to active when people are actually working on it
That is not what that status is about
What would be the advantages of m4a compare to WAV, MP3, OGG Vorbis or FLAC which are already supported by MuseScore ?
m4a is just a container, like OGG, what type of compression would you like if m4a would be added ?
There are dozens of Audio file format and containers. I don't think MuseScore should be in the business to export to all of them. There are very good converters out there and they will do a better job than MuseScore.
It seems AAC is the most commonly used audio format in a m4a container... "Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a proprietary audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression." (from Wikipedia .
In addition to what they previously said, I think it is pretty easy for you to convert m4a files into mp3.
There's online websites for converting files, in addition to programs for Windows OS and Mac
convert m4a files into mp3
this is not really the point, MuseScore can export mp3 already, this request is for exporting m3a. But most probably there are enough programs out there to convert mp3 to m4a too ;-)
I close this PR. Open again if you have more info. In my opinion:
These 4 reasons are enough to not implement yet another format.
In reply to I close this PR. Open again… by [DELETED] 5
I understand. This is logical. I hope I can find a free offline conversion program. (Uploading and downloading to and from a website is time consuming and annoying)
you can use Avdshare Audio Converter to convert it without quality loss.