What Is The Difference Between An Mp3 And An Mp4 Player?
An mp3 player is a type of a digital audio player. Digital music files can be stored and organized, as well as played in such a player. In fact, mp3 is the most used format that a DAP (digital audio player) plays. Therefore these two terms are quite often synonymous with each other. MP3 is short for MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3. In simple words, it is a format which encodes and compresses data, without compromising on the quality of sound. A team of German engineers invented this technology which later went on to become an ISO/IEC Standard in 1991. An mp4 player is also a digital audio player, but it is based on the Flash software and one can use it to view text files, as well as images and videos. A large percentage of these players is made in China. Ironically, they are called MP4 players, but most of them are not able to support videos in the MP4 format. MP4 is short for MPEG-4 Part 14. They are largely used to store digital audio and video files. Officially, the extension for filenames of
