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Apple to announce AAC+
By Jeremy Horwitz
Editor-in-Chief, iLoungeGoogle+
Published: Tuesday, October 26, 2004
News Categories: iTunes
Apple-X reports that “Apple director of QuickTime product marketing, Frank Casanova, will deliver a keynote speech at the Cellular Telephone and Internet Association (CTIA’s) Wireless IT and Entertainment 2004 [today] in San Francisco.” Casanova is expected to announce Apple’s support for a next-generation AAC encoding format with superior compression, ready for use on cellular networks.
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If true, this would be great news for Mini owners. Being able to encode at 64 kbps with CD quality results would essentially double the song capacity. Has anyone tested the AAC+ codec to verify the quality claims?
Posted by Drew on October 26, 2004 at 11:24 AM (PST)
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I’m assuming that the sound would be similar to MP3pro vs. MP3—more compression with the same sound quality, but (at least to my ears) a more fatigueing sound. Is this in prep for Apple’s flash-based iPod?
Posted by Avi on October 26, 2004 at 11:55 PM (PST)
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AAC+ or AAC-HE is actually a AAC-LC with SBR (Spectral band replication)
64kbps AAC HE is a 22.5kHz AAC-LC+SBR information (to reproduce hghi frequency signal cut off by low pass filter)
And yes, it don’t sound good as AAC-LC at 128kbps.
AAC-HE don’t suite music application (that required hifi audio) but I think it has potential in mobile phone application or high quality voice codec
Posted by :p on October 27, 2004 at 2:02 AM (PST)
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I tested Nero’s AAC-HE encoding capabilities. A 64 kbps sounds better than a 128 kbps AAC-LC. CD quality is achievable at 48 kbps for AAC-HE so 64 kbps is a bit more, kinda like how CD transparancy is achievable with 96 kbps MP3pro. I am thinking about ripping my tracks again but that would be alot of work especially if Apple didn’t AAC+ support to the 3rd gen. iPod.
Posted by asdf on October 27, 2004 at 4:12 AM (PST)
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Does a 3g ipod play mp3pro files? With this anouncement will newer versions of itunes ahve aac+ as an option to trip cds?
Posted by Braden on October 27, 2004 at 11:51 AM (PST)