AAC to MP3

Convert AAC files to MP3 files for playing on common MP3 player

AAC means advanced Audio Coding, also called MPEG-4 AAC. This audio codec is the continuation of the MP3 codec created by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. It is an audio codec used increasingly for downloaded music files, streaming-media, and satellite-radio applications.

MP3 is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format. It was designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent audio. Because MP3s significantly compress songs, it is a perfect candidate for distributing on the internet.

The differences between the AAC and MP3 codecs: AAC-encoded files sound as good as or better than MP3 files encoded at the same or even a higher bit rate. For example, a 128-kilobit-per-second (kbit/s) AAC file should sound as good as or better than a 160 kbit/s MP3 file. Because the bit rate is lower, the AAC file will also be smaller than the MP3 file. AAC files allow you to store the most music on your hard disk or iPod. The High Quality AAC setting creates files that are usually less than 1 MB for each minute of music.

If you want to play AAC files on your computer, you need to install realplayer or quick time first. Sometimes many of us want to convert AAC to MP3 to be played on MP3 player. There are many Audio Converter available on the Internet, and some support converting AAC to MP3 function. Following we list some programs related to converting AAC to MP3.

Xilisoft Audio Converter download 1 download 2
It provides an easy and completed way to convert video formats including AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF to all popular audio files. Besides the most popular formats like AAC MP3 WAV WMA VQF OGG, it also supports AAC MP3 WMA MP4 M4A MP2 OGG APE AAC VQF etc.

Xilisoft WMA MP3 Converter download 1 download 2
It is an exclusive WMA files and MP3 files encoder with friendly interface and lots of useful features. The converter supports WMA MP3 WAV OGG AAC FLAC APE VQF files etc. as the input formats and converts them to the most popular audio formats MP3 files and WMA files.

ImTOO CD Ripper download 1 download 2
An excellent MP3 CD ripper and audio converter. It can extract cd audio to mp3, wav, wma, ogg and convert between these audio formats. The main function is extracting CD tracks to MP3, WAVE, etc. You can use it to convert AAC file to mp3 and play them in most mp3.