Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

2009-01-16 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Jan 15, 2009, at 8:01 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: I wonder if a current WMP for Mac would work with this or a similar plug in . That would be ironic, if WMP under OS X played AAC+ better than

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

2009-01-15 Thread Dan
At 2:52 PM -0600 1/14/2009, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jan 14, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Dan wrote: Are there other players for Macs that can handle AAC+? Perhaps Windows iTunes can play AAC+? but not the Mac version? Apple marginalizing the Mac?grrr. I have no AAC+ files. Do you have a

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

2009-01-15 Thread Dan
At 4:03 PM -0500 1/14/2009, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: A 20 minute check on versiontracker.com found nothing related to AAC+. In fact oddly few audio players at all showed up there. Strange as in the recent past I would have sworn there were many! iTunes has crushed the market. It's a

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

2009-01-15 Thread Dan
At 4:11 PM -0500 1/14/2009, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Wikipedia lists some Windows and mac OS X encoders and players. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HE-AAC#Support FStream seems interesting. Found a few AAC+ streams listed in it - they sound great. Can't seem to get it to do the WRTI

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

2009-01-15 Thread Chris Barham
At 4:11 PM -0500 1/14/2009, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Wikipedia lists some Windows and mac OS X encoders and players. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HE-AAC#Support Have a look at the AAC+ streams from Tuner2 http://www.tuner2.com/ http://www.tuner2.com/ They recommend a Windows Media

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

2009-01-15 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Chris Barham cbar...@pobox.com wrote: At 4:11 PM -0500 1/14/2009, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Wikipedia lists some Windows and mac OS X encoders and players. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HE-AAC#Support Have a look at the AAC+ streams from Tuner2

Playing AAC+ on a Mac

2009-01-14 Thread Dan
Many radio stations are dropping mp3 and aac format streams, in favor of AAC+ (HE-AAC) - a five year old standard that provides better fidelity over lower bandwidth. iTunes doesn't support AAC+ ! VLC plays it, but crashes or hangs after about 5 mins on both my Smurf and PB G4 (OS X

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

2009-01-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 14, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Dan wrote: Are there other players for Macs that can handle AAC+? This article implies that iTunes for PC handles AAC+ differently that iTunes for OS X: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t56050.html Perhaps Windows iTunes can play AAC+?

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

2009-01-14 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Many radio stations are dropping mp3 and aac format streams, in favor of AAC+ (HE-AAC) - a five year old standard that provides better fidelity over lower bandwidth. iTunes doesn't support AAC+ ! VLC plays it, but

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

2009-01-14 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Many radio stations are dropping mp3 and aac format streams, in favor of AAC+ (HE-AAC) - a five year old standard that provides better fidelity over lower bandwidth. iTunes doesn't support AAC+ ! VLC plays it, but