On Oct 26, 2004, at 8:48 AM, Adam Piontek wrote:
quoted 6 lines And I don't see how by then I wouldn't be able to play my AAC audio> And I don't see how by then I wouldn't be able to play my AAC audio
> files ... given the ubiquity of the iPod, it would seem any future
> iPod-killer would really have to be able to play AAC files. At the
> very least I could re-rip my collection and transcode what I don't
> have on CD. Which I wouldn't mind having to do if it's sufficiently
> distant in time (around that 10 year marker).
Just for the record, AAC isn't entirely Apple's invention. It's part
of the MPEG (motion pictures expert group) consortium's
industry-standard codec. It is the successor to MP3. It's part of the
MPEG-4 standard, actually. Since it's a standard, you'll have little
fear of the AAC files not playing. A lot of the other players haven't
adopted the standard yet, which is inexplicable since AAC is truly a
standard with the MPEG group behind it, but it's just a matter of time
before they do. Especially considering AACPlus is coming out very
soon.
I personally went the Apple Lossless route since no audio is
compressed, and I can transcode without loss of audio, too.
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