AUP to M4A

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Convert AUP to M4A

What is AUP?
AUP is Audacity Projects file. Audacity projects are stored in an AUP file, which is a format that has been highly optimized for Audacity so that it can open and save projects extremely quickly. In order to achieve this speed, Audacity breaks larger audio files into several smaller pieces and stores these pieces in a directory with a similar name as the project. For example, if you name a project "chanson", then Audacity will create a project file called chanson.aup which stores the general information about your project, and it will store your audio in several files inside a directory called chanson_data. The Audacity Project format is not compatible with any other audio programs, so when you are finished working on a project and you want to be able to edit the audio in another program, you could export the project to WAV file.

What is M4A?
M4A stands for MPEG 4 Audio. Since MPEG-4 Part 14 is a container format, MPEG-4 files may contain any number of audio, video, and even subtitle streams, making it impossible to determine the type of streams in an MPEG-4 file based on its filename extension alone. In response, Apple Inc. started using and popularizing the .m4a file extension. Software capable of audio/video playback should recognize files with either .m4a or .mp4 file extensions, as would be expected, as there are no file format differences between the two. Most software capable of creating MPEG-4 audio will allow the user to choose the filename extension of the created MPEG-4 files.

Because of its exceptional performance and quality, Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is at the core of the MPEG-4, 3GPP and 3GPP2 specifications and is the audio codec of choice for Internet, wireless and digital broadcast arenas. AAC provides audio encoding that compresses much more efficiently than older formats, such as MP3, yet delivers quality rivaling that of uncompressed CD audio.

To Convert AUP to M4A, you need to convert AUP file to WAV by Audacity first.

[Please skip the step if Audacity has been installed on your computer] Click here to download Audacity free, and then install it by instructions
Launch Audacity by clicking Start -> All Programs -> Audacity
Click menu "File" -> "Open..." to open the AUP file on Audacity
Click menu "File" -> "Export As WAV..."

And then, Audacity will ask you where the WAV file will be saved at.

Please choose a folder to save the WAV, and then input name of the WAV file, and then click "Save".
Done

And then, use WAV MP3 Covnerter to convert the outputted WAV file to M4A.

Click here to download Total Audio MP3 Converter free
Install the software by step-by-step instructions
Launch Total Audio MP3 Converter by clicking Start -> All Prorgrams -> Total Audio MP3 Converter -> Total Audio MP3 Converter
Choose WAV Files