Apple's AAC Put To The Test

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AAC Put To The Test
from the musical-ambitions dept.
posted by timothy on Monday June 09, @20:43 (music)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/2249239

technology is sexy writes "Following the increasing popularity of AAC in [1]online music stores and the growing amount of implementations in software and [2]hardware, the format is now being put to the test. How well does Apple's implementation fare against [3]Ahead Nero, Sorenson or the Open Source [4]FAAC at the popular bitrate of 128kbps? Find out for yourself and help by submitting the results. You can find instructions on how to participate [5]here. The best AAC codec gets to face MP3, MP3Pro, Vorbis, MusePack and WMA in the next test. [6]Previous test results at 64kbps [7]can be found here."

Links:
1. http://www.apple.com/music/store/
2. http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,4879,126,00.html
3. http://www.ahead.de/
4. http://www.audiocoding.com/
5. http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.p...ST&f=2&t=10107
6. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...328223&tid=141
7. http://ff123.net/64test/results.html