AAC for foobar 2011-10-24 10:52:53 Hey Folks!Besides Nero, is there any free AAC encoder I can use with foobar? (I don't wanna install QT or iTunes)
AAC for foobar Reply #1 – 2011-10-24 13:50:10 Quote from: Frankie on 2011-10-24 10:52:53Hey Folks!Besides Nero, is there any free AAC encoder I can use with foobar? (I don't wanna install QT or iTunes)FAAC? Quality sucks though. There's some recompiles of the 3GPP reference software, but they don't support most encoding modes IIRC.If you want decent quality, you'll need one of the commercial encoders.
AAC for foobar Reply #2 – 2011-10-24 15:02:28 With qaac you don't have to actually install QT, just download it, extract some of the files (easily done with 7-zip) and set up a configuration file. You can do similar things with a frontend to qtaacenc. Searching a little here at Hydrogenaudio should give you all information you need (I found it here, but I didn't bookmark the threads in question...).
AAC for foobar Reply #4 – 2011-10-25 23:49:40 I currently use qtaacenc and find it works nicely.Edit: Just noticed that you said you wanted to avoid installing QuickTime. qaac might be the way to go for you, since you can install a "portible" version of QuickTime (just the drivers contained in a local folder); I don't know if this can be done with qtaacenc. Last Edit: 2011-10-25 23:51:09 by Zarggg
AAC for foobar Reply #5 – 2011-10-29 01:15:58 http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....8072&st=325If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, lvqcl made and uploaded a script for qtaacenc that extracts from the QuickTime install .exe. No installation is necessary.
AAC for foobar Reply #6 – 2011-10-29 03:26:34 QTaacenc works well for me. The apple codec recently did extremely well in the last 96kbps listening test.
AAC for foobar Reply #7 – 2012-12-17 20:12:58 [quote author=K-Meleon link=msg=773760 date=1319847358]http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....8072&st=325If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, lvqcl made and uploaded a script for qtaacenc that extracts from the QuickTime install .exe. No installation is necessary.[/quote]Link to the script is dead.I tried with another tool from that thread to make QT portable, but it didn't work.What's the simplest way to do it?
AAC for foobar Reply #9 – 2012-12-18 18:34:00 If it's more or less the same to setup I'd use qtaacenc. If perhaps qaac is easier I could also use that. (The encoded files are the same, anyway. Please correct me if I'm wrong.)
AAC for foobar Reply #10 – 2012-12-18 19:34:18 qtaacenc: modified executable (not the official) + registry hacks. qaac: official binary + no hacks, only DLL files. So IMHO qaac is preferrable.Download makeportable.zip from https://sites.google.com/site/qaacpage/cabinet and unpack it to obtain makeportable.cmd.You also need 7z.exe and 7z.dll from 7-zip packer.Also you need ItunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64Setup.exe or QuickTimeInstaller.exe).Copy all files into the same folder and run makeportable.cmd. You now have QTfiles subfolder with all necessary files.
AAC for foobar Reply #11 – 2012-12-18 22:31:42 Thanks, got it working now with qaac.Just to avoid confusion for anyone reading this: the resulting 'QTfiles' folder has to be placed with qaac.exe and other files (in the 'x86' folder).What's generally a good setting for music? I'm looking for ~120-130kbps.I'm currently using --tvbr 85 --no-optimize --ignorelength - -o %d. Foobar then reports the resulting file as TVBR q82, quality 96. Does this look ok? (EDIT: I guess there's only TVBR 82 and the next step is TVBR 91.) Last Edit: 2012-12-18 22:38:52 by Brand
AAC for foobar Reply #12 – 2012-12-19 00:42:35 Brand,qaac settings:Q0 - Q4 (0) = ~40 kbpsQ5 - Q13 (9) = ~45 kbpsQ14 - Q22 (18) = ~75 kbpsQ23 - Q31 (27) = ~80 kbpsQ32 - Q40 (36) = ~95 kbpsQ41 - Q49 (45) = ~105 kbpsQ50 - Q58 (54) = ~115 kbpsQ59 - Q68 (63) = ~135 kbpsQ69 - Q77 (73) = ~150 kbpsQ78 - Q86 (82) = ~165 kbpsQ87 - Q95 (91) = ~195 kbpsQ96 - Q104 (100) = ~225 kbpsQ105 - Q113 (109) = ~255 kbpsQ114 - Q122 (118) = ~285 kbpsQ123 - Q127 (127) = ~320 kbpsYou will be ok with -V63 or -V73, http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=TransparencyIn any case, always ABX. Last Edit: 2012-12-19 00:48:17 by eahm