What Is The Difference Between An Mp3 And An Mp4 Player?

An mp3 player is a type of a digital audio player. Digital music files can be stored and organized, as well as played in such a player. In fact, mp3 is the most used format that a DAP (digital audio player) plays. Therefore these two terms are quite often synonymous with each other.

MP3 is short for MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3. In simple words, it is a format which encodes and compresses data, without compromising on the quality of sound. A team of German engineers invented this technology which later went on to become an ISO/IEC Standard in 1991.

An mp4 player is also a digital audio player, but it is based on the Flash software and one can use it to view text files, as well as images and videos. A large percentage of these players is made in China. Ironically, they are called MP4 players, but most of them are not able to support videos in the MP4 format.

MP4 is short for MPEG-4 Part 14. They are largely used to store digital audio and video files. Officially, the extension for filenames of MPEG-4 Part 14 is .mp4. So in truth, players that play .mp4 files are actually MP4 players.

An mp3 is a one which can only play music but a mp4 can not only play music but can store videos and images

MP3, plays only music. MP4 plays music and videos.

MP3 is an official standard format that began in the year 1992. The major similarity that MP3 and MP4 players have is that both the formats are compression technologies. Both MP3 and MP4 players convert standard analogue audio tracks such as those on a commercial compact disc that has a number of musical tracks on it into smaller digital files that can be played on the computer.

An MP3 player is a file extension that derives its name from the file name MPEG, audio layer 4. Layer 3 is one of the three coding schemes used for the compression of audio signals. However, while an MP3 player is a basic gadget, an MP4 player is an advanced version of the MP3 player. It enables the extension of files globally for the official format. This official format has been defined in the MPEG-4 standard. The MPEG-4 standard has been accredited with the ISO 14496-14 by the International Standard Organisation (ISO).

MPEG-Layer3 ana 4

Mp3=only music
mp4=music+video

Hi!
        The difference between mp3 and mp4 is mp3 I-pods are only capable of playing songs, while mp4 I-pods are capable in playing videos and songs. You can use both your ipod and laptop, and you will not need any software play mp4.
        Hope this helps!!!

You can only play audio on a mp3 player whereas you can play video and audio on a mp4.....ake...I think