.m4b

1 claimant 0 primary 1 secondary secondary-only

SWH popularity

From the SWH-MSR-ARV dataset (Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz, MSR 2025; file nb_extensions_alphanum.csv) — one row per (ext, year) in the full SWH archive. Case-aggregated. citation.

734
total occurrences
60
since 2019 (8.2%)
2012–2023
years active

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to mp4 — every claim across all sources (including secondary ones) points to a single language.

Authoritative sources: ✗ Linguist · no claim ✗ Pygments · no claim △ Wikidata · secondary ✗ Wikipedia · no claim

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Claimants (1)

Languages that list .m4b among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
LanguageSourceStrength
mp4wikidatasecondary

Wikidata says… (3)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .m4b on Wikidata (property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox. Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv. Click Use as new PL on any row to open the Add-PL form pre-filled with that entry's name, Wikipedia/Wikidata URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.
Right entry isn't listed? Add manually ↗
FormatClass (Wikidata P31)Suggested labelMIMENotesAction
Advanced Audio Coding Q337594
Audio compression format from MPEG
audio file format; audio compressionbinary:audioaudio/aacp; audio/mp4a; audio/mp4a-latm; audio/mpeg4-generic; audio/mpga; audio/x-aac; audio/x-m4a; audio/x-m4b; audio/x-m4p; audio/x-mp4a-latm; audio/aacUse as new PL ↗
MPEG-4 Part 14 Q336316
digital multimedia format most commonly used to store video and audio
digital container format; multimedia containerbinary:videovideo/mp4; audio/mp4Use as new PL ↗
Audio-only MPEG-4 Q136095526
MPEG-4 file with audio only content
digital container formatbinary:videoaudio/mp4Use as new PL ↗

SWH-mined examples (0)

No archived examples for .m4b in our local mirror yet.

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