There's another factor to your advantage here, if the majority of your content is voice. Voice is WAY more forgiving of high compression than music, so I would say you're good choosing a different format rather than jumping through hoops trying to accommodate m4a. Save yourself some headache.
Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media UX/UI Design > On Aug 13, 2016, at 2:40 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > >> On 8/13/2016 3:52 PM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: >> I agree with Scott about the “difference in quality” issue. Probably >> the only way people would notice a difference in audio quality would >> be to play the files side-by-side. Even then it would be difficult >> because of the relatively low quality of playback >> speakers/headphones. I’ve tried it with groups of people. And people >> really only notice bad audio when it is actually bad, not when it is >> just not as good as pristine. >> >> And there definitely are batch converters (free and $). >> >> But getting some audio people to believe this may be difficult. They >> can be a stubborn lot, especially if they come from the days of tape >> recording when moving analog audio around really could audibly >> degrade it. > > That's it in a nutshell. But there's also the more legitimate issue that a > high-quality mp3 file is going to be larger than the equivalent m4a. With the > number of users they have repeatedly streaming the files, it'll cost them. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
