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Preferred term

AAC  

Definition

  • Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves higher sound quality than MP3 at the same bit rate.

Entry terms

  • Advanced Audio Coding

Identifier

  • AAC

Notation

  • .aac
  • .adts
  • .ass
  • audio/aac
  • .loas

In other languages

  • AAC

    Estonian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/file-type/AAC

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