I've just spent the last few days rewriting my frontend for AACEnc that I did a while ago.

Some features are:
Multiple input files
Create batch file
All settings I'm aware of are graphically represented
Saves some settings

The frontend is written in java and therefore requires JRE 1.3.1 (http://java.sun.com)

A picture can be found here: http://www.mtek.chalmers.se/~ekdafred/frontend/frontend.png
And the frontend can be downloaded here: http://www.mtek.chalmers.se/~ekdafred/fron...AC_Frontend.jar
Source code is available at my page http://www.mtek.chalmers.se/~ekdafred/inde...ac_frontend.txt

I would appreciate any kind of feedback as this program is my first attempt to learn some programming.

The screenshot looks great - however when I downloaded the file and wanted to unzip, win xp protested saying it couldnt open the file.

I am not aware of the java program you refer to, that one must have in order to use your program, and was rather confused when I entered the link to the java page...didnt know what to do or download there...

Would love to try your program out, but is rather stuck right now...

Hi, the java program you refering to is the java runtime environment
its here if you want it
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/download-windows.html
its quite big, so, id make sure the zip file works if you really want to try it out,
there are other frontends arround that dont require java,
it'll would be better if the frontend would run without java, ie vb or summat similar

Thanks for the interest.
The JAR file with the program works as an executable when you have JRE 1.3.1, just click on it. JAR files are actually zip files which contains all the classes and a pointer to the main class, but with the extension jar instead of zip.

Well i've tried this frontend.
Don't know what's the problem but encode button doesn't work same as batch [it creates zero-sized bat file].
Btw frontend adds -pns switch by default which is not good idea with -normal preset and above [according to discussion goin' on in this forum] and i couldn't get rid of it.