AAC - Advanced Audio Coding

[DigiDutch]

Have any of you played around with this file format in iTunes?

I seem to be hearing strange things when importing from CD at the highest bitrate. I mostly hear strange, distorted delay type fx.

Your thoughts?

[carmen]

aac is pretty pointless unless bandwidth is of utmost concern...and unless youre running a streaming operation, or an online music-store, i'd imagine that's not the case. check out monkey's audio and FLAC, both only about 2x the disk space of 192kbps mp3, and no loss of audio quality..

[Klaseed]

I disagree. AAC just sounds better than mp3, at all bitrates. I've done direct comparison between LAME-encoded mp3s and AAC, and there's a big difference. So, if you care about audio quality at all, there's a big point to using AAC.


Of course neither sounds as good as CDs or anything of a higher quality.

Digidutch - I haven't encountered the problems you mentioned. Are you seeing this in all situations where you use AAC, or is it just certain source CDs, etc?

[DigiDutch]

I just started playing with it, so I haven't tried it with a whole lot of CD's, but I came across it on a couple of different tracks, from different cd's. I re-encoded one song again to see if it made a difference, but no dice. The source, which is an original CD had none of these side effects.