HI! I am going tu buy the new model of philips 8cm player.
It is able to play MP3/AAC. As it can handle up to 180 Mbytes, to store the max full albums on a miniCD what should I do ? AAC has higher quality, but with MP3 I can control better the bitrate, so I could fill the CD with 3 albums aprox. With AAC, is there any encoder that is well decoded with this player, wich I can control the bitrate more or less as well as with MP3 vbr/abr? If I know the minutes a number of given albums has, I only have to calculate the aproximate bitrate I have to reach, so, should I choose AAC instead MP3 even it is not so easy to play with it vbr?
I hope I have explained well my question, sorry if not...

Nero has a calculator and the bitrate selection works like with MP3 files.

jormartr:
use quicktime crb settings then, or nera cbr setting, then you'll have controll over the bitrate

and quicktime seems to have the best quaility RIGHT NOW

Well, it's obvious I can use a fixed bitrate for that I want to encode, but in a bitrate of more or less 160kbps, what is better? an MP3 vbr/abr or an AAC cbr?
In case AAC is better, I'll go always with AAC, but if not, I would have to choose between MP3 vbr/abr and the most probably some Nero AAC preset. Is the second better for an average of 160kpbs?

I believe the AACenc -normal preset comes pretty close to 160-170kbps

So, the equivalent Nero preset should deliver similar bitrates.

oh, well, thanks. In that case, I can easily transcode my MPC's too AAC, so three albums can be fitted on a cd, and with a reasonable quality!! I hope 160kbps vbr AAC will, in some way, be equal to a -aps, or a bit better..., that is great for the size of that cd player.