AAC for ipods ? anyone ?
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From: Howard on 10 Jan 2010 17:43 I have been looking at a change to AAC for quality purposes... Anyone already moved over to AAC for use on their iPod or in the home or car ? What do you think ? Howard
From: D.M. Procida on 10 Jan 2010 17:55 Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > I have been looking at a change to AAC for quality purposes... > > Anyone already moved over to AAC for use on their iPod or in the home or > car ? What do you think ? It's been iTunes's default encoder for nearly a decade, hasn't it? Anyway, I use lossless encoding in iTunes (I think it's a version of AAC actually) because I dislike the sound of compressed audio. Daniele
From: Woody on 10 Jan 2010 18:03 Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > I have been looking at a change to AAC for quality purposes... > > Anyone already moved over to AAC for use on their iPod or in the home or > car ? What do you think ? Most of my audio is AAC as I always used iTunes for it (even before the iPod). I have no problem with it. -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Howard on 10 Jan 2010 19:07 D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > > > I have been looking at a change to AAC for quality purposes... > > > > Anyone already moved over to AAC for use on their iPod or in the home or > > car ? What do you think ? > > It's been iTunes's default encoder for nearly a decade, hasn't it? > > Anyway, I use lossless encoding in iTunes (I think it's a version of AAC > actually) because I dislike the sound of compressed audio. > > Daniele Well ... let's face it the vast majority of users use MP3. Hence my question. H
From: Elliott Roper on 10 Jan 2010 19:23
In article <1jc4obk.4kw80fowvd8gN%Howard.not(a)home.com>, Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > > > > > I have been looking at a change to AAC for quality purposes... > > > > > > Anyone already moved over to AAC for use on their iPod or in the home or > > > car ? What do you think ? > > > > Most of my audio is AAC as I always used iTunes for it (even before the > > iPod). I have no problem with it. > > Tks. I wonder if others have made the change and how they feel about > it.. I have flannel ears. When I'm listening intently, it is usually classical music. I can't hear the difference between 160 kbit/sec AAC and mp3 at any bit rate above 192 kbits/sec. Below that and mp3 is worse. About the only time I can hear the difference between 160 kbit/sec AAC and CD or lossless is a bit of warble on whitish noise, such as ambient crowd noise on live performances. Mp3 makes a much worse mess of that in my view. Even AAC is unpleasant below 160 kbit/sec. So I discard all mp3 less than 192 and recode everything else to 160 AAC. If my ears were younger, I might have chosen 192 or even 256 AAC, discarding mp3 less than 320. -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 |