Im shortly getting a cellphone which will play AAC and MP3 - the obvious choice is to encode with aac and I was having a play with different bitrates and playing in foobar2000 to see how low I could go and find it tollerable.

I thought I had found the sweetspot at 48 k/sec (Using dbpoweramp converter to convert my .flac's)

Untill I tried "ode to my family" by the good old Cranberries off no need to argue.

Anyway, the bit at the start where she sounds like a truck backing makes some major pop and click noises. When played in winamp which ignores the + part (at 22khz) its not popping and clicking, sounds fine (well as fine as 22kHz audio can) - Is this likly to be a playback error? I have nothing other then foobar2000 to try playing on at this stage.

I can cut a sample out and post it if anyone wants to re-try it, but it seems 100% reproducable to me. I just downloaded the nero files that dbpoweramp needed today. Is this a frequant problem with aac+? Would I be better bumping it up to 64k/sec to avoid the use of the + features (even tho to my ears its less plesent to listen to, its still ok for on the go) - I dont want to start a batch conversion if its gonna happen in lots of songs.

edit --- put the sample at http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=46919

But since doing that I thought, why not convert the aac back to wave with dbpoweramp, and sure enough, that worked fine, so it looks more like a playback problem in foobar2000, still a problem, but perhaps not as bad as I thought, will have to wait till I get the phone to see how it goes there before kicking off the batch recode

That's a bug that has already been fixed. Please try latest (beta?) version of foobar2000

Sweet, so it is, I tend to avoid betas of software I use alot so didnt even think of installing it. Have removed the sample now.