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aacPlus - the best codec to use? I'm asking because the new Winamp uses it.

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RedRhino

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"aacPlus delivers superior quality at a fraction of the bit rate compared to Layer 3, and is optimized for excellent reproduction of both voice and music. Listen to the audio files in the demo below to hear for yourself why aacPlus has been called "the best low-bit rate codec on Earth." Bit rates were chosen to showcase results at common POTS connection speeds."

Is this true?


 
If you are ripping your cds, which are stereo, to 5.1 aacPlus you arent really gaining anything. I don't know if you can rip dvd-audio discs.
 
Originally posted by: Funkertosh
If you are ripping your cds, which are stereo, to 5.1 aacPlus you arent really gaining anything. I don't know if you can rip dvd-audio discs.
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It still has better low bit-rate quality than mp3.
 
Originally posted by: RedRhino
"aacPlus delivers superior quality at a fraction of the bit rate compared to Layer 3, and is optimized for excellent reproduction of both voice and music. Listen to the audio files in the demo below to hear for yourself why aacPlus has been called "the best low-bit rate codec on Earth." Bit rates were chosen to showcase results at common POTS connection speeds."

Is this true?
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I'm doing some tests right now and I fully qualify that statement as true. I've taken a track from a CD and encoded it to a 64kbps AACPlus v1 file, and I can't tell the difference between it and the CD(but then again, I don't have great ears either). I'd have to get an MP3 up to 160kbps to get similar quality, so I'd say it's very good for the bitrate. You can go even lower if you use the v2 feature set(Parabolic Stereo), but the encoder still needs some work or something, there's some funky distortion going on with it right now, so v1 is the ideal choice.

PS aacPlus is just the "brand name", the actual standard as far as v1 goes is the High Efficiency Advanced Audio Codec standard(HE-AAC)
 
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