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Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #1 –
I know the Philips EXP30317 eXpanium supports AAC. Does anyone have tested it, or knows if  supports files encoded with psytel ?

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #2 –
I don't know this, but I'd be interested in finding out myself... PsyTEL would be great on a portable

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #4 –
i just got a philips exp50317 that supports aac when i rma'ed my old exp10317 (talk about free upgrade! )... if someone would be kind enough to explain how to use psytel to encode files as that -h extension just flies by the screen and i have no clue what to do, then i would gladly post results of various aac codecs on the Philips EXP series

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #5 –
oh and i found some specs for the aac support on the philips line... and im a newbie to all this aac stuff so i dont really know what it means but here it is anyway:

"AAC format: ISO 13818-7 MPEG-2 (low complexity profile), stereo, ADTS and ADIF headers, AAC bit rate =<160 kbps"

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #6 –
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if someone would be kind enough to explain how to use psytel to encode files as that -h extension just flies by the screen and i have no clue what to do
I HIGHLY reccomend you try out Speek's EXCELLENT PsyTEL frontend:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/~w.speek/download/Ivan&Menno_1.3.zip

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #7 –
According to Amazon.com you're right!

Features:
MP3 and ACC playback with CD-R/-RW compatibility
100-second Electronic Skip Protection (ESP)
VBR (variable bit-rate) playback
15 hours' playback time with 4 AA batteries (ESP on)
Includes AC adapter and 3-key remote control

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #8 –
of course im right... im holding the manual and cd player in my hands 

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #9 –
Well, now you all know what to get me for Christmas!
It's a pity it doesn't go over 160 kbps and only does LC. Oh well, it's a good start! Did you tryout Ivan & Menno yet?

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #10 –
im trying it out now... for some reason when i try to play it, there is no sound and the counter goes by about 3 seconds every second... :confused: guess i gotta play with the settings in Ivan...

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #11 –
*********** PsyTEL® MPEG-4 AAC Encoder V1.3 (build Dec  6 2001) ***********
                  Copyright © 1999-2001 PsyTEL Research
                  Copyright © 1999-2001 Ivan Dimkovic

This program is protected by copyright law and international treaties.
Any reproduction or distribution of this program, or any portion of it
may result in severe civil and criminal penalties, and will be
prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under law.

For further info please visit http://www.psytel-research.co.yu


usage: AACENC -switches
switches: -h              Print help
          -br <x>          Bit rate in kbits per second (dflt: 128)
          -if <x>          Input file name
          -of <x>          Output file name
          -qual <x>        Encoder quality level (1-9) (dflt: 9)
          -production      Production (slowest) CBR encoding
          -altcbr          Alternative CBR mode
          -ihsc            Improved Human Speech Coding
          -nh              Disable ADTS header (raw ISO 13818-7 AAC file)
          -noshort        Disable block switching (debug only!)
          -no_temporal    Disable temporal masking
          -lc              MPEG-2 AAC Low Complexity (LC) mode
          -profile        AAC Profile:
                          0: MPEG-2 AAC Main, 1: MPEG-2 AAC LC,
                          2: MPEG-4 AAC LC, 3: MPEG-4 AAC Main,
                          4: MPEG-4 AAC LTP
          -adif            Use ADIF header
          -vr              Variable bit rate (VBR mode, good quality)
          -vbrhi          Total VBR mode (recommended, high quality)
          -tape            Preset: Tape VBR Mode
          -radio          Preset: Radio VBR Mode
          -internet        Preset: Internet VBR Mode
          -streaming      Preset: Streaming VBR Mode
          -normal          Preset: Normal VBR Mode (recommended)
          -extreme        Preset: Extreme VBR Mode
          -archive        Preset: Archive VBR Mode (best quality)
          -ultra          Preset: Ultra (transcoding) mode (highest bitrate)
          -lfe            Use LFE channel (only for 4 and 6 channel input)
          -c <x>          Cut-Off frequency in Hz (lowpass) (dflt: 0)
          -ltq <x>        Decrease Threshold in Quiet by n dB (dflt: 0)
          -raise_smr <x>  Increase Signal to Mask Ratio by n dB (dflt: 0)
          -low_ath        Use highest sensitivity hearing threshold
          -no_ath          Disable ATH
          -no_tns          Disable TNS coding
          -artist <x>      Artist Name
          -title <x>      Title Name
          -album <x>      Album
          -year <x>        Year
          -use_tags        Use Tags
          -resample <x>    Resample input to x Hz (dflt: 0)

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #12 –
try typing:
-lc -br 160
in the Switches: box

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #13 –
or if you're not in too big of a hurry:
-lc -br 160 -production

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #14 –
waahooooooooooo it works! 

i kinda am in a big hurry considering im supposed to be either studying or sleeping for my calculus AP and physics exams tomorrow... so i just did -lc -br 128.  oh well... at least it works:D

oh and btw... it runs on 2 AA not 4 like amazon.com and philips.com reports... its a typo on both places... 

now i just gotta find out about WMA... if i tilt the cd player, i can see a spot on the LCD that says WMA right below MP3 and AAC, but it doesnt work :confused: oh well... time for sleep...

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #15 –
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now i just gotta find out about WMA... if i tilt the cd player, i can see a spot on the LCD that says WMA right below MP3 and AAC, but it doesnt work
Who cares about wma??? It plays ISO AAC!!!

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #16 –
Hrmm.. this is pretty cool news.  Can you try VBR?  Perhaps the -extreme preset?  If that works I'm seriously going to consider picking one of these up..

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #17 –
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Originally posted by layer3maniac
Who cares about wma??? It plays ISO AAC!!!
I wonder for how long.. wonder if Dolby & co know about this and are gonna do something about it?
Juha Laaksonheimo

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #18 –
I've got an EXP40117 (8cm disks) ordered and on its way from Amazon ($130).  If I don't like it I can always return it.

ff123

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #19 –
I know, I saw that on there. It lists for $180 too. I wonder how hard it is to find 8 cm cdrw's for it?
 

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #20 –
I don't know about cd-rw's but I should be able to find the cd-r's pretty easily -- I have a couple from the last time I visited a computer swap meet, and probably Fry's (computer chain) has them.

ff123

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #21 –
ff123, they give the same specs for the eXpanium  EXP401 as for the EXP503:

AAC format: ISO 13818-7 MPEG-2 (low complexity profile), stereo, ADTS and ADIF header, AAC bit rate ¡Ü 160 kbps

If you want to look over the user's manual you can download it here:

http://www.audio.philips.com/Downloads/PDF...401_usa_eng.pdf

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #22 –
www.audio.philips.com also says the EXP303 has AAC support.

One odd thing about the details for the 303 vs. the 503 is that the 503's amp section is only listed with an 82 dB S/N, while the 303 has a 100 dB S/N - can that be right?!

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #23 –
Quote
Originally posted by layer3maniac
Who cares about wma??? It plays ISO AAC!!!


true... but why would they put wma on the screen (but not in the manual) and not have it supported?

Quote
Originally posted by JohnV
I wonder for how long.. wonder if Dolby & co know about this and are gonna do something about it?

well i dont think they can do anything about the players... just the encoders... i mean if you have the license for the encoder you shouldnt have to pay for the license on the player....

the 8cm one is the same price as the normal one, so if size isnt a problem, you might as well just get the 503 and have full capacity cd-r's and rw's

as for the 303 vs 503... i think someone mistyped one of them... they've got wrong info all over the place... i would think they have the same amp, but whether its the 82 or 100 i dunno...

Portable Iso AAC Player

Reply #24 –
Quote
Originally posted by layer3maniac
I HIGHLY reccomend you try out Speek's EXCELLENT PsyTEL frontend:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/~w.speek/download/Ivan&Menno_1.3.zip


Thanx for the compliment

I did a very minor upgrade, so now the link is: http://home.wanadoo.nl/~w.speek/download/Ivan&Menno_1.4.zip

If you're upgrading from v1.3 and want to keep your existing presets.cfg file, please remove "default" from the first line of that file.