Steve Jobs' Open Letter ... succeeded? - by Navyhacker006
EZ-52 on 7/6/2007 at 16:00
Quote Posted by flexbuster
.Lossy encoding -> CD -> Other lossy encoding = Worse quality than either the original, or the end format if done straight from a CD-quality audio file (or CD audio itself).
And that's why you don't do that.
I wasn't looking at it from a technical standpoint, I was just pointing out that this is a way of getting drm free tracks without personal info embeded that are bought from the iTunes Music store. Also, the change in quality would be neglible if you were using it on a personal player.
Quote Posted by flexbuster
Er, most things should play AAC by now.
Compare that with the amount of generic and lesser known brands that support only mp3,wav,wma, and ogg then in actual fact very few things play ACC. In fact, the only things i know to play ACC files widespread are iPods and select mobile phones.
flexbuster on 7/6/2007 at 23:58
Quote Posted by EZ-52
I wasn't looking at it from a technical standpoint, I was just pointing out that this is a way of getting drm free tracks without personal info embeded that are bought from the iTunes Music store. Also, the change in quality would be neglible if you were using it on a personal player.
Compare that with the amount of generic and lesser known brands that support only mp3,wav,wma, and ogg then in actual fact very few things play ACC. In fact, the only things i know to play ACC files widespread are iPods and select mobile phones.
First off, the fact that you're using a "personal player" has little to do with it. The only reason it would is because you're probably using crappy headphones, which is what makes the difference. Unless, of course, your digital audio player is really, really, really crappy. And it's rare for them to be that bad at simple audio output, I would think.
Also, as far as AAC hardware support, I did about five seconds' worth of research and found that the Microsoft Zune player also supports it, as well as the PSP, some Sony ones, Palm OS, anything that can run RockBox I suppose.
However, you seem to be correct that there are a lot which still don't, which surprises me. I would imagine (and hope) that hardware support will ramp up now that more things are being sold in the format. Seems like DAP manufacturers like to be sort of... minimalistic with their codec support, which is quite annoying.
