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Playing iTunes' AAC-encoded music on a PC
Authored by: tc_nyc on May 13, '03 04:23:46PM

That's not totally correct.

A VBR MP3, at least when using LAME, will ignore it's base limit if there is silence. Use the histogram to watch how it encodes an MP3 with a hidden track, so there is a length of silence between the two songs on one track. It will not stick to 160k, but jump down to 32k packets until there is something to encode again. Unless you use the -F flag to "strictly enforce minimum bitrate".

I will agree wholeheartedly that after many MP3/AAC encoder shootouts using LAME 3.93.1 and QuickTime AAC, the LAME still sounds much better. I think the AAC codec has promise and could potentially be much better than MP3, but the QuickTime codec stinks.

But then again, I'd rather have a bigger/badder iPod and just store AIFF files anyway. That's another story altogether.



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