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Old 2005-01-22, 07:38 PM
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Re: Program To Convert AAC to MP3?

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Originally Posted by RainDawg
[...]but in fact there are several versions of the AAC (actually MPEG layer 4) format.
Sorry about nitpicking, but: No, AAC is NOT "MPEG layer 4". AAC one of the various audio codecs specified in layer 3 of the MPEG-4 standard.

(see wikipedia or Google for more details)
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Originally Posted by RainDawg
Intestingly enough, this test seems to suggest that Apple's AAC algorithm is the most transparent of the major competitors.
Note that the result was a rather close call, and the test is almost a year old now - I'm not up to speed about Apple's encoder, but Nero's encoder has made quite some progress since that test.
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