greetings!

a lot of my music collection is in .aac format.
is anyone working on a plugin that will allow this decoding? if not, has it been given any thought?

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http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....t=25#entry77404

thank you for the quick reply, but unfortunately that does not work. in addition, i prefer .aac [when dealing with lossy audio] for its integrity. i'm hoping that i will be able to just play them as-is. it's a popular format... c'mon

You won't lose quality when you wrap them in MP4 containers. It just adds the layer that foobar needs to read them.

quality loss asside, i was unable to get playable .mp4 files. mine were horribly distorted and played 2x-3x faster than normal.

i will look further into the pros & cons of wrapping.

if there truly is _no_ quality loss, i have no problem wrapping them. what am i doing wrong?

you need to download the mp4 plugin for foobar

AAC is just a stream format, that is all.

MP4 is just a container format, not a codec or anything. MP4 is like QuickTime or AVI, you still need a compression method like MP3 or AAC for audio and Sorenson or DivX for video.

Think of MP4/AAC like you would Ogg/Vorbis. One is the container format and the other is the codec/stream format itself.

You lose absolutely nothing by adding an MP4 container.

i used MP4ui to wrap my aac files in mp4 containers (lossless process of course)

the program is here: http://www.mediacruiser.de/mp4UI/

What player/plug-in originally decoded these .AAC files?

FAAD2? I think that's the one used for the mp4 plugin. The source is available from:

http://www.audiocoding.com/files/faad2-1.1.tar.gz

the audiocoding site. dunno if that's any use.

I have a question of my own. Is there any good cd to aac ripper? With normalisation, and some way of tagging the aac files if possible. Please include all the options used (i.e. the command line, settings or whatever) I'm aiming for reasonable speed, the best quality at 128 to 160kbps. Any other codec recommendations will be considered. (i've been reading lots of interesting things about musepack)

Oh, there's a plugin for winamp available from http://www.inf.ufpr.br/~rja00/files/faadplug.zip

it's the in_mp4 one in that zip. it even has an option when using winamp's file info thingy to convert the aac to an mp4. which is interesting. I'll leave that to you guys anyway.

Thanks

Thanks spase! Your introduced prog is quite good for me!

I couldn't figure out mp4UI, it made the aac into an mp4 but i don't really get why or how it did it. Is there a brief guide somewhere or something?