MPEG-4 AAC (.m4a) audio support

Hello,

My client can’t use mp3 for audios because of licencing issue.

It’s basically 2500$ per game title for more than 5000 distributed copies.
The only solution ATM to support every platform is to have a combination of ogg and m4a for audios.

Do you plan to support MPEG-4 AAC in PlayCanvas?

Thank you,
Emmanuel

Hi @ejacquier.
We have planning for Asset Variants feature. Which will generate different formats out of assets to support different platforms benefiting from best suitable formate on specific platform.
That includes textures and audio.

Although this is in backlog currently and we don’t have estimate when we are going to implement it.
Technically speaking, we can allow uploading m4a files, and they just should work with little improvement in engine and editor to support that. Then it will be your code to choose which asset to play ogg or m4a based on what is supported on platform your app is running.