New Public Multiformat Listening Test (Jan 2014)
Reply #60 –
If the Winamp encoder in whatever the latest Winamp release was is current, that's great.
Are there relevant differences between the libfdk_aac that you sold to Google and this encoder?
Yes, Winamp 5.666 has the latest AAC encoder quality-wise, no new quality tunings which are ready for release.
I'll let you know when quality is improved. Or just ask
The Winamp/Sonnox/... encoder has a completely different code-base than fdkaac and is a bit better tuned, especially for VBR.
Chris