The trouble with AAC is that Fraunhofer & Dolby are working with RIAA, and
as a result even the distribution of AAC encoders is forbidden. AAC is
intended to be used by music companies and artists to sell their music
on-line, it is also used in hardware for satellite transmission, I think
that Toshiba has announced their walkman which you will feed with WAVs and
it will use AAC to store music in its flash memory. So AAC is not intended
to be used by individuals, well anyway not in a way we use MP3.
FhG will only license their AAC encoder to others, so AAC will be used in
proprietary formats, like Liquid Audio - which is the only software AAC
encoder that uses FhG code that you can get today - get Liquid Audio's
encoder called Liquifier Pro from many sites on the internet (like
http://homes.arealcity.com/aacleech/ ). It's illegal of course, but what can
you do when there is no other way? :) It does sound better then MP3 at
128-160kbps, and sometimes at 128-160 it even beats MP3 at 320kbps but this
is only because of the excellent pre-echo control. At 128-160kbps it encodes
up to 20kHz, it rarely gives artifacts, but it has less-defined sound from
256kbps MP3 and it seems to boost high-frequencies so it may sound more
metallic :) But I don't see the reason to encode in AAC (Liquid Audio) - MP3
gives better quality at 256kbps, and you're not stuck with a proprietary
format that you can play only in players that have Liquid Audio plug-in
(winamp plug-in for Liquid Audio should be out by fall).
----- Original Message -----
From: Cavallo de Cavallis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, 28 April, 2000 20:13
Subject: [MP3 ENCODER] aac encoders
> sometimes ago i took a look to the world of AAC, and it seemed quite
interesting.
> unfortunately the free decoder(s?) that were available were also very
buggy.
> do u know if now there's around somethin good that can be compared to
mp3??
>
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