> The AAC standard has been set since 1997. > Who informed you? Anandtech, when they reviewed the new iPod: http://www.anandtech.com/audio/showdoc.html?i=1827&p=14 "All music downloaded from the iTunes Music Store is encoded in Apple's own AAC format, which is a MPEG-4 derived standard ..."
May be incorrect, but like I said, "as I'm informed..." And, as we all know, standards are often set long before implementations are made, and implementations are usually taken into use before they're 100% compliant or have variations that differ from the specs (did anyone say Microsoft MPEG-4 V1/2/3? Or MPEG-2 AAC vs. MPEG-4 AAC?). > If it doesn't produce the same format it isn't an AAC standard conformant > encoder. My point exactly. > AAC files created with PsyTEL, FAAC, Nero, Sorensen, FhG, Dolby and Apple > all play fine with each others decoders. Well, I remember trying Psytel and FAAC, and they didn't play back. Come to think of it, I did get Nero's AAC ripper to produce files that played back with Media Center. The Media Center AAC decoder only accepts ISO compliant MPEG-4 audio streams, which when I tested it, turned out to play only the iTunes AACs and the Nero AACs. > Peelable? That doesn't work yet, IIRC. AAC can be scalable as well. Well, that's what they call it, since the "scalable" term is used by others, such as realnetworks, to describe inferior technologies that switch between preset bitrates. I didn't know AAC could do that. Good to know. About not working, it's a question of the current development in streaming software, not the OGG files. > Try the HE AAC codec that Ahead will release on July 18th, it kicks Vorbis > ass at low bitrates. > > http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=10530 Sounds promising. Thanks for the link. > The MPEG-4 file format supports multiple tracks as well. Next to that AAC > has proper multichannel support. What about OGG Vorbis' multichannel support is improper? Byebye, Daniel _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
