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Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #400 –
Quote from: wylistener on
Quote from: Ivan Dimkovic on

We will issue a new update in the few days, which will among other things also include a command line tagger.


Will that commandline tagger enable the single mp4 feature such as CUE sheet, album art, etc?  The feature stated in the first post of this thread is:

"* Store Entire Audio Album in a Single .mp4 File with all the Features of an Audio CD embedded inside, but at a fraction of the space!"



Signs point to yes.  But, as always, wait for a dev to say anything before you take that as fact.

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #401 –
Great codec. Vorbis can't come close even with latest aoTuV mods until about
-q -1 vs -q 0.2. Then it's a tie.
I mean that audio at 11kbps is even fairly listenable.
(unlike some Garf's experiments with Vorbis at lowest bit rates)

Are SBR+PS responsible for such good results?

I wonder which one's better at higher bit rates, like ~160 kbps. (or Vorbis -q 5)
Probably neither...

Do you have even more up your sleeve?
ruxvilti'a

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #403 –
New Version (1.0.0.2) is out, get it from:

http://www.nero.com/nerodigital/eng/down-ndaudio.php

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Version Number: 1.0.0.2

Release Date: 18/05/2006
New Features:

    * neroAacTag.exe for Nero Digital Audio Tagging
    * Nero AAC Encoder
      - Now writes mpeg-4 tags at the beginning of the MP4/3GP files
      - Now supports multiple input files (-if) and produces a multichapter
        MP4 file when more than one input file is present
      - Backwards compatible signalling of SBR and PS Audio Object Types
        (also when LC is used for encoding) for improved 3GPP
        Compatibility
      - Added progress display
    * Nero AAC Decoder
      - changed to new faster AAC/HE-AAC/HE-AAC v2 decoder
      - Added support for the backwards compatible signalling and
        corresponding behaviour


Version Number: 1.0.0.0

Release Date: 01/05/2006

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #404 –
Quote from: Ivan Dimkovic on
New Version (1.0.0.2) is out, get it from:

http://www.nero.com/nerodigital/eng/down-ndaudio.php

Quote

Version Number: 1.0.0.2

Release Date: 18/05/2006
New Features:

    * neroAacTag.exe for Nero Digital Audio Tagging
    * Nero AAC Encoder
      - Now writes mpeg-4 tags at the beginning of the MP4/3GP files
      - Now supports multiple input files (-if) and produces a multichapter
        MP4 file when more than one input file is present
      - Backwards compatible signalling of SBR and PS Audio Object Types
        (also when LC is used for encoding) for improved 3GPP
        Compatibility
      - Added progress display
    * Nero AAC Decoder
      - changed to new faster AAC/HE-AAC/HE-AAC v2 decoder
      - Added support for the backwards compatible signalling and
        corresponding behaviour


Version Number: 1.0.0.0

Release Date: 01/05/2006




...and there we are.    The features of the new tagger should be interesting and very, very useful.

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #405 –
Quote from: Ivan Dimkovic on
New Version (1.0.0.2) is out, get it from:

http://www.nero.com/nerodigital/eng/down-ndaudio.php

Quote

Version Number: 1.0.0.2

Release Date: 18/05/2006
New Features:

    * neroAacTag.exe for Nero Digital Audio Tagging
    * Nero AAC Encoder
      - Now writes mpeg-4 tags at the beginning of the MP4/3GP files
      - Now supports multiple input files (-if) and produces a multichapter
        MP4 file when more than one input file is present
      - Backwards compatible signalling of SBR and PS Audio Object Types
        (also when LC is used for encoding) for improved 3GPP
        Compatibility
      - Added progress display
    * Nero AAC Decoder
      - changed to new faster AAC/HE-AAC/HE-AAC v2 decoder
      - Added support for the backwards compatible signalling and
        corresponding behaviour


Version Number: 1.0.0.0

Release Date: 01/05/2006



So how do I use the neroAacTag.exe commandline tagger to enable the single mp4 feature such as CUE sheet, album art, etc? The feature stated in the first post of this thread is:

"* Store Entire Audio Album in a Single .mp4 File with all the Features of an Audio CD embedded inside, but at a fraction of the space!"

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #406 –
- You can feed encoder now with multiple PCM WAV files (check out the release notes) - output will be the multichapter file

- You can then use the tagger to set the metadata, and optionally also add cover art in the file (front/back cover, etc...)

Please check the command line tool's help.

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #408 –
Thanks a bunch for this. Any plans(date) for a linux binary?

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #409 –
Quote from: Ivan Dimkovic on
- You can feed encoder now with multiple PCM WAV files (check out the release notes) - output will be the multichapter file

- You can then use the tagger to set the metadata, and optionally also add cover art in the file (front/back cover, etc...)

Please check the command line tool's help.


But feeding it multiple files doesn't make sense.  I take CD, rip it to a single WAV+CUE.  I now have ONE single 500mb WAV file that has an associated CUE sheet that shows where all the track points are.

What you're saying is I need to split my single WAV file into separate WAVs per song and then feed that back into neroAacEnc.exe with the new “-if” option. And then I have to write some customer parser (C program, PERL, whatever) to parse the CUE file for “TRACK” and “INDEX” meta and feed that to neroAacTag.exe?

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #411 –
Quote from: Ivan Dimkovic on
- Now writes mpeg-4 tags at the beginning of the MP4/3GP files

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Sniffing in the VIP area / We talk about Frank Sinatra
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Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #412 –
Yes, direct cuesheet parsing is a good idea - it will be added in the next revision.

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Have you been able to get NeroAacTag to work with Wine? I just get a "Could not update MP4 file" error.


We will look into this - Linux Version is also coming soon so I guess that will be a native solution for it.

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #413 –
when encoding with eac, do i direct the encoder to neroaacencoder_sse2.exe or neroaactag.exe if i want tagged m4a's?  same question for foobar, i guess...

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #414 –
Quote from: binkgle on
when encoding with eac, do i direct the encoder to neroaacencoder_sse2.exe or neroaactag.exe if i want tagged m4a's?  same question for foobar, i guess...



Neroaactag.exe doesn't encode, it only tags.

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #415 –
My Settings in EAC for encoding and tagging with nero are:
user- defined encoder, file ending .m4a
Program used:
Code: [Select]
C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe

additional commands:
Code: [Select]
/c C:\path\to\neroaacenc.exe -q 0.425 -if %s -of %d && C:\pat\to\Neroaactag.exe %d -meta:artist="%a" -meta:album="%g" -meta:track="%n" -meta:title="%t" -meta:genre="%m" -meta:year="%y"


You might want to change the paths according to your personal preference

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #416 –
just updated MAREO (4.0.1 now) to include the configuration option for the tagger.

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #417 –
Quote from: Ivan Dimkovic on
If that is of any help,  our PNS and IS powered modes at 64 and 80 kbps are done, and they have been sent to tuning process

So expect maximum squeeze of LC-AAC for those bit-rates in the next couple of weeks


Ah, I've been waiting for this release!!! Sadly, I can only play LC-AAC on my portable

What switches do I use to encode at these powered modes?

And which switches should I use with -lc to get the best results?

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #418 –
Does the new tagger set iTunes-style in addition to Nero tags? If so, does it duplicate data in the Nero tags, or only use the Nero tags for the meta-data that can't be held in iTunes tags?

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #419 –
Quote from: LaserSokrates on
My Settings in EAC for encoding and tagging with nero are:
user- defined encoder, file ending .m4a
Program used:
Code: [Select]
C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe

additional commands:
Code: [Select]
/c C:\path\to\neroaacenc.exe -q 0.425 -if %s -of %d && C:\pat\to\Neroaactag.exe %d -meta:artist="%a" -meta:album="%g" -meta:track="%n" -meta:title="%t" -meta:genre="%m" -meta:year="%y"


You might want to change the paths according to your personal preference


thx, i'll give it a shot

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #420 –
thx a lot for the update nero team!
any particular reason for this change Ivan?
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-Now writes mpeg-4 tags at the beginning of the MP4/3GP files
Allegari nihil et allegatum non probare, paria sunt.

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #421 –
thanks to the Nero team, this gets better and better, and is now my encoder of choice.

for the tagging in EAC, i would use -meta:track="%n/%x"  which gives track 02/11 etc (at least in Foobar. Track number/of doesn't show up in iTunes for some reason). Tagger is very fast, and very welcome

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #422 –
Quote from: torok on
Quote from: Wedge on

Thanks a bunch for this. Any plans(date) for a linux binary?


Have you been able to get NeroAacTag to work with Wine? I just get a "Could not update MP4 file" error.


Nevermind. It's just because Wine won't let an app modify a file that's outside of the Windows sandbox. I'll have to look into that.

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #423 –
Quote from: al_iguana on
for the tagging in EAC, i would use -meta:track="%n/%x"  which gives track 02/11 etc (at least in Foobar. Track number/of doesn't show up in iTunes for some reason). Tagger is very fast, and very welcome

You should use -meta:track="%n" and -meta:totaltracks="%x"
 

Nero Releases FREE Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Encoder

Reply #424 –
Quote from: Ivan Dimkovic on
New Version (1.0.0.2) is out, get it from:
http://www.nero.com/nerodigital/eng/down-ndaudio.php

I'm just encoded file with new neroaacenc... neroaacenc.exe -q 0.425 -lc -if xxx.wav -of xxx.m4a
CoolEdit recognized xxx.m4a as a AAC-HE and it's sounded like a average AAC-HE...
I'm think it is a side effect of "Backwards compatible signalling of SBR and PS Audio Object Types
(also when LC is used for encoding) for improved 3GPP Compatibility"... but why it's affect the playback quality of winamp/cooledit?