quoted 7 lines Personally I have no interest in AAC or even the iTunes store. AAC is> Personally I have no interest in AAC or even the iTunes store. AAC is
> DRM-ware, and I like having my audio collection live outside what the RIAA
> says is an acceptable format for playback. Portability and quality (go
> LAME!) are my biggest concerns, not being able to easily buy .99 songs in
> iTunes. I think most interest in AAC right now is just part of that
> reality-distortion field Steve puts out whenever he announces a new
> product. Expect interest to die down in a month or two.
AAC does not require DRM, it just has support for it. There are plenty of
people using AAC without DRM.
AAC has been around for a while. It's the standard audio format for MPEG4.
You can encode AAC audio with Quicktime. You can broadcast AAC streams with
Quicktime Broadcasters.
XM radio is using AACplus, an enhanced version of AAC designed for lower
bitrates.
AAC sounds really really good. AACplus sounds amazing at low bitrates....
almost as good as 128k MP3s at 40kb AACplus!
PS- Lots of rumors that AAC and AACplus are going to be supported by Winamp
(and AOL) soon.
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