The Podcast Engineering Show | Professional Podcast Production - Recording, Mixing, Editing, Mastering

Great discussion with Allan Tépper. He is the host of Beyond Podcasting, as well as a  a Pro Audio/Video specialist, tech journalist, broadcaster, author and consultant. (and my previous guest on episode 74) *DISCLAIMER: We are not advocating for anyone to switch from MP3 to AAC (.m4a). If you're contemplating it, please do more research and decide for yourself. We discussed many aspects of MP3 vs. AAC (.m4a): Advanced Audio Coding is designed to be the successor of the MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, known as MP3 format, which was specified by ISO/IEC in 11172-3 (MPEG-1 Audio) and 13818-3 (MPEG-2 Audio) The widespread reluctance to even THINK about publishing podcast episodes in any other format than MP3. .m4a is the most common extension, but not the only extension, used for AAC. Sound quality: AAC sounds better than MP3 especially when encoded at lower bitrates. This means that your final episode file can be smaller in size and still sound as good or better than MP3. Chris's experience: "When I convert my .WAV file