Open AA File
The AA file extension is used as the data file format attached to Audible Audio Book, which is a spoken audio recording of Audible.
The AA file extension and Audible Audio Book were developed by Audible, which is a North American sales and production company of audio for entertainment, information and educational programming.
AA files contain digital audio clips of the audiobooks with encryption related to digital rights.
It is important to know that AA files are not compatible with most audio players, although compatibility has been found with Apple iPod, Microsoft Zune, Creative Zen, Amazon Kindle.
AA files can also be stored on any digital medium, be it a compact disc, USB drive or others, in case there is a need to extract it from the hard drive.
As a technical note, AA files can be saved in three different bit rates, from 8 kbit/s to 32 kbit/s, which means that the audio quality varies from an AM radio quality level to that of the format itself MP3.
It is important to know that when AA files are DRM protected, there is no possibility to convert them to MP3 or WMA.
To work and open the files in AA format you can use any of the following software packages:
How to open AA files
Typical AA application file locations:
C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.exe /open "%L""C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.exe" /play "%L"
Typical AA mime types:
audio/audible
Frequently used application names to open AA files:
- iTunes
Frequently associated Windows objects:
iTunes.aa