I'm in the process of going through all my mp4's and re-transcoding them from FLAC sources. I have a hard time believing that, after 2 years or so, nothing's been done about the "Fast" and "High" setting choice to be made with Nero's encoder. I remember reading a post somewhere mentioning that since Nero v7, "High" is now officially the better of the two choices. gurubolez posted a response to another question on the same topic and did not refute the statement (he was the one who did initial tests to show that "Fast" used to be superior to "High"). Forgive me for beating a dead horse, but I just want clarification. Maybe I missed a post somewhere that had ABX results and had a test performed with a rather recent version of the encoder.
My second query is regarding the profiles for encoding. I tended to use Normal VBR "Fast" to encode my files. In the process of re-doing an album (am using Normal VBR "High" now), I was just curious to see the size difference between "High" and "Fast," when I noticed the entire album this time around (with a much newer version of encoder) was about 9MB smaller than the last. Am I to presume that with new versions of the encoder it's been optimised, and filesize has decreased while the quality remains? The bitrate seems to have dropped for all the songs involved in the new batch too, so I'm a bit hesitant to make the switch and lose quality that I had before. Unfortunately, the file info for the old copy of the album doesn't contain which version of aacenc32.dll I used, so I can't say.
Also, Ivan's mentioned a new encoder in the works for sometime. Is that specifically related to HE-AAC? Or will it affect the LC-AAC as well? ...Maybe I missed a post for that one, but I tried reading through all of his posts. Tedious, to say the least.
Cheers,
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-ozmosis82
~~~~~An hour later...~~~~~
*Sigh* I found the answer to all 3 of my questions in another topic. Anyone interested can check them out:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=39673
Oh, the irony.