Hi,

I got an iPod, and like lots of people who own one I'd like to see support for aac+ on it.
But aac seems to be heavily licensed and i was wondering if apple would have to get again another license for it, in addition to the one for aac normal, or, since aac sbr decoding code will be in faad2 soon, it could implement it quite simply.
So basically is it just up to apple to port sbr decoding code to the iPod, or is it more complicated than this, with license issues etc.. ?

thanks

pierugg

Apple would have to license the SBR decoding technology from CodingTechnologies

Besides, they can't just use FAAD2's SBR implementation (unless they are willing to open their firmware sources). They would have to license it from Ahead.

It would be in Neros interest to make the decoding part of HE-AAC license free (even to Apple) to get wide spread adoption.

This would be great!!!!!
And it's true, if the iPods supports aac+ I will buy nero, and other people will for the same reason, but i don't think this will ever happen....

pierugg

I'm hoping they add it as well. What they might do is come out with their own version of the technology, who knows?