What Is The Difference Between An MP3 And MP4 Player?
Posted by sachit patel on March 25, 2011 (0 Comments)
If we want to know the difference between an MP3 and MP4 player, we first need to know the difference between the MP3 and MP4 file formats. As most people know, the two are popular compression formats that are used by digital audio players.
The MP3 format which is short for MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, is used for compressing audio files for storage and/or transfer through the internet. MP3 is the format more popularly used and played by digital audio players. On the other hand, the MP4 format which is short for MPEG-4 Part 14, is used to store multimedia such as both audio and video files.
Now we know the difference between the two file formats, we can conclude that the basic difference between the two digital audio players is that an MP3 player can only handle audio while an MP4 player can handle audio, video, text, and images since they are based on a Flash software.
For the supported file formats by the two digital audio players, most MP3 players support only support mp3, wma, and ogg while MP4 players support mp3, wma, wav, MPEG 1,2,4, mp4, jpg, avi, vob, and asf.
Another significant difference between the two is the display since MP3 players are only used for audio and have small LCD displays while in MP4 players, you can view videos and pictures so they have larger displays of at least 65K color. For the price, there is not much difference but MP4 players are usually more expensive.