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AAC Put To The Test

Posted by timothy on from the musical-ambitions dept.

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."

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  1. i prefer just to steal the music by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    this makes the format rather irrelevant.

  2. aahh... AAC sux, anyway... by Corporate+Drone · · Score: 4, Funny
    ... especially if they allow Miami, BC, and Syracuse in...

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  3. DVDA by Graspee_Leemoor · · Score: 5, Funny

    I prefer DVDA.

    What hyphen?

    graspee

  4. Re:crap in, crap out by jpt.d · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  5. Pfffft... by Squirrel+of+Doom · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  6. Ogg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  7. Apple vs. punk rock ethic by switcha · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.

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