Does anyone know how I can read .m4a files on my PC?

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JRO - 25 Feb 2007 19:03 GMT

I've been given a disk with some files written on a Mac and don't have the
software to read them. Any ideas? Thanks.

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Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] - 25 Feb 2007 23:51 GMT

>I've been given a disk with some files written on a Mac and don't have the
>software to read them. Any ideas? Thanks.

Sure you can fix this - Quicktime is installed by deafult on Mac OSX,
and is the registered handler for M4A (MPEG audio) files.

On PC you can just install Quicktime and specify for it to handle a
very few file types needed - in your case just allow M4A and perhaps
AAC audio initially till you get used to it (QT will try to offer you
a lot more file types, it's your call if you let it do that or not
just after install)

Cheers - Neil
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Corentin Cras-Méneur - 26 Feb 2007 00:21 GMT

> On PC you can just install Quicktime and specify for it to handle a
> very few file types needed - in your case just allow M4A and perhaps
> AAC audio initially till you get used to it (QT will try to offer you
> a lot more file types, it's your call if you let it do that or not
> just after install)

Real Player and Video Lan CLient (VLC) can also read AAC files.

Corentin

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Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / February 2007

Does anyone know how I can read .m4a files on my PC?