How to open Audible audio .aa files
Have you had trouble opening the aa file on your computer? What are aa files? We explain what they are and recommend software that we know will open them.
What is aa file?
Files with aa file extension are in most cases audio books and other audio programs for the Audible platform by Amazon.
Audible audio description
The aa file extension is used for a proprietary audio book format used by Audible, an Internet provider of spoken audio entertainment, information, and educational programming. The company sells digital audiobooks, radio and TV programs, and audio versions of magazines and newspapers. It is owned by Amazon.
This format comes in several versions:
- Format 2 (Quality of AM radio sound - mono)
- Format 3 (Quality of FM radio sound - mono)
- Format 4 (Quality of MP3 sound - mono)
Audible audio files are often protected by DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Many current devices support AA format, with notable being Apple's iPods, Microsoft Zune, Creative Zen, Amazon Kindle and other.
MIME types:
audio/audible
audio/x-pn-audibleaudio
Suggested software to open aa file
Audible
A media player for audible audio file format
There are other AA filename extensions with the same .aa suffix
aa - Generic multi-volume CD image
an aa file extension is related to Generic multi-volume CD image file format rarely used by some disk images management apps.
aa - PAML data
An aa file extension is related to the PAML (Phylogenetic Analysis by Maximum Likelihood) software. An aa file stores some kind of data used by PAML.
aa - Prognosis Automated Analyst document file
The AA file extension is associated with the Prognosis Automated Analyst document file format.
aa - Unix data
Files with aa file extension might also be found on Unix platform as some sort of system files.