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MP3 APS vs. AAC 'X' ?

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unless you're decoding to wav and feeding that to your sound card. 

Why not? That's already some support.

MP3 APS vs. AAC 'X' ?

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Anybody know if anyone is planning on implementing a variable bitrate version of AAC, and whether the major audio players (both hardware and software) currently support/are going to support it?

Ahead Nero (with the AAC plugin) and Psytel AACenc (available at RareWares) can both encode to VBR AAC.

QuickTime plays VBR AAC. I'm not sure about iPod, but my guess is that it would play without problems as well.

All my iPod AAC/MP4 files are VBR. So it works.

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MP3 APS vs. AAC 'X' ?

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On a Mac?  AFAIK MPC support is zero on the mac unless you're decoding to wav and feeding that to your sound card. 

You assume I only have one computer.

Thanks for the info on how to tweak QuickTime. I'm trying it out right now. I'll have to see if I can hunt down a copy of AACenc and try VBR with it. The lack of VBR seems to be the major downfall of encoding with AAC on a Mac at this point in time.

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AACEnc's encoding speed is simply *pathetic*.

From what I have seen, so is the decoding speed.
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MP3 APS vs. AAC 'X' ?

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From what I have seen, so is the decoding speed.

Not really. FAAD2 is around 20-30% slower than MAD or MPG123.

OggDec (John33's version) used to be quite slower than FAAD2. I wonder if that changed lately.

@Tarod: Thanks for clarifying

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Ogg Vorbis - I'm going to go out a limb and say that the owner of a $300-$500 iPod with a 10-30 GB HD doesn't plan on listening to <128 bit files [...]


I still don't get why so many users here consider Ogg Vorbis useful only at low bitrates. It's still great at -q 5 and -q 6, believe it or not. Yes, you don't get the best "bang for bitrate" - MPC usually produces lower bitrates at --quality 5 while maintaining better quality. But after all, Vorbis @ -q 6 still is transparent on most material. So if there was portable support (which I surely believe there will be to greater extent soon), perhaps even on big hard disk-based players, why not use it?

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unless you're decoding to wav and feeding that to your sound card. 

Why not? That's already some support.

I was asking if anything new had been released . . .