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Telltale Weekly Audiobooks Now Offered as AAC

Posted by Hemos on from the for-the-purist-in-you dept.

Alex writes "My audiobook project Telltale Weekly now offers DRM-free AAC downloads of its entire catalog of audiobooks in addition to already-supported Ogg Vorbis and MP3. Probably one of the most-requested features since we started. We also released our first booklength work last month, meaning that an unabridged reading of War of the Worlds will be free online in 5 years or sooner."

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  1. Serious question by martinX · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do you know why people were requesting AAC in particular? It's not like iTunes and iPods can't play MP3s. Seems like an odd request. That is all.

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    1. Re:Serious question by Kulic · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I would assume people want to use AAC instead of MP3 because you get higher quality sound out for the same bitrate.

      Personally I think it's all very subjective and heavily dependent on where and how you're listening to stuff, but people like what they like.

    2. Re:Serious question by geoffspear · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The sound quality difference may be important to audiophiles who are listening to music, but I can't really see any reason why anyone would care when it comes to audio books.

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