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**J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]** · April 3rd 19, 02:41 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

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I am not sure how that changes anything. It is still the equivalent to
an analog "copy of a copy".
I agree when you change formats you are uncompressing and
recompressing it tho. That uncompressed state is probably WAV anyway.

Well, raw audio within the memory of your editor; only becomes WAV when
(or if) saved.

The idea of changing the file extension to AAC is worth a shot tho.

I tried it, unfortunately without success.

Some players will eat an AAC. You don't have much to lose because you
can always change it back.

My WinAmp wouldn't eat the ,m4a renamed to .aac, but would eat a file I
already had that had always been .aac; my GoldWave wouldn't eat either.

(DOS is your friend here)

I did the renaming in Explorer. (OK, it warns you, but it's only a click
t dismiss the warning. [I think you can turn it off, but I leave it on -
useful when I've _unintentionally_ changed the extension.])
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