AAC Put To The Test

technology is sexy writes "Following the increasing popularity of AAC in online music stores and the growing amount of implementations in software and hardware, the format is now being put to the test. How well does Apple's implementation fare against Ahead Nero, Sorenson or the Open Source FAAC at the popular bitrate of 128kbps? Find out for yourself and help by submitting the results. You can find instructions on how to participate here. The best AAC codec gets to face MP3, MP3Pro, Vorbis, MusePack and WMA in the next test. Previous test results at 64kbps can be found here."

Comments

i prefer just to steal the music

[Anonymous Coward]

this makes the format rather irrelevant.

aahh... AAC sux, anyway...

[Corporate Drone]

... especially if they allow Miami, BC, and Syracuse in...

DVDA

[Graspee_Leemoor]

I prefer DVDA.

What hyphen?

graspee

Re:crap in, crap out

[jpt.d]

256khz mp3? That is amazing, I only ever use 44khz

Pfffft...

[Squirrel of Doom]

In the Billy and the Boingers' "U Stink But I Luv U" encoding test, the OOP-AAC compression scheme won by a wide margin.

Re:WTFDAACM ?

[stagmeister]

THANK YOU for linking to e2!

Now for the next hour - or maybe the next few - I will waste my time going to pages such as this.

Once again, thanks!

--Jason

Ogg

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, I'm not using AAC until it supports Ogg.

Apple vs. punk rock ethic

[switcha]

for a company who sold one of their first computers for $666 dollars, I'd imagine some of the bands are very disappointed in them using such a good codec.

I mean, damn them! Nirvana didn't pay $606.17 to record Bleach so that some Corporate Asswipe could make a high fidelty copy of it!

The Ramones would be very peeved to find all the work they put into keeping most songs to three, dingy, distorted chords, ripped to a high fidelty format.

Law & Order

[xihr]

The African American Congress? Okay, okay, I'll be the first to admit I watch too much Law & Order.

Re:crap in, crap out

[Anonymous Coward]

oh shit.. patent that quick.. i see a new form of copy protection brewing..

Re:crap in, crap out

[nattt]

The fact is, that CD ripping works fine, and has done for many years. You can rip the same bit twice if you want and compare bit for bit to see that each rip is the same. CD Paranoia is just the word for it. For all their technical voodoo, they sound like they're talking bollacks. CD ripping is a perfectly mature technology that works well.

Re:My own test

[evilviper]

Since you said it, it must be true...

I did my own test a while back. My results were:

1. Phonograph
2. DVD
3. Reel-to-reel
4. CD
5. SACD

Yes, I'm joking, but mod me up too... I post at +2, and have a good list of fans (unlike the parent), so I must be right...

Re:crap in, crap out

[nattt]

Strange - ever since I got a CD-ROM drive for my Mac IICX, I've never had a problem getting decent audio files off a CD. Perhaps the problems are a PC phenonema?