AAC - Advanced Audio Coding

DigiDutch · 25th November 2003, 09:20 PM

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 · 26th November 2003, 06:45 AM

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 · 26th November 2003, 09:50 AM

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 · 26th November 2003, 07:03 PM

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.

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25th November 2003, 09:20 PM	#1
DigiDutch Gear maniac Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Holland Posts: 167	AAC - Advanced Audio Coding 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?

26th November 2003, 09:50 AM	#3
Klaseed Gear nut Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: San Francisco Posts: 77	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? __________________ Plate of shrimp

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26th November 2003, 06:45 AM	#2
carmen Gear nut Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: us Posts: 128	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..

26th November 2003, 07:03 PM	#4
DigiDutch Gear maniac Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Holland Posts: 167	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.