Hi Rob
I don't find it a problem to play AAC files in Windows
as long as any file with the extension .m4a is changed
to .mp4 they play in Windows Media Player for me and
in iTunes. But not any files purchased from the iTunes
store as these have the DRM built in.
I also found a useful plug-in for Audition on the PC,
Cool-AAC drop this inside the program folder of Cool
Edit, Audition 1.5 or 2 and you can open and save AAC
files and can select the bit rate as well.
To my ears AAC at the lower bit rates is more pleasing
and less tiring for me to listen to than mp3's of a
similar rate. So I find 128kb AAC acceptable but not
mp3's and I certainly tire very quickly when listening
to 128kb mp3's.
Move up to the 192 / 256 area and agreed I don't think
there is much to choose between them.
My main computer is a Mac and have been a convert for
many years, well I say convert I started on a Mac
before I ever met a Win PC. I do have a PC now as I
decided that it would be a good project to build one
and help keep the old grey matter active. Plus I use
PC's all the time at work as we use Audition heavily
and so I thought it would be good to have Audition at
home as well.
But in the future it looks like a Mac will do it all
for me, especially with Parallel which will apparently
now allow you to run some windows programs without
having the windows desktop active.
QuickTime on a PC is fine, I have found, as long as
you don't let it take over the machine. Only have it
play those specific QT formats leave Windows Media
Player as your main default player. Likewise if you
install Real Player be careful not to let that take
over either and just let it look after the those Real
Player specific formats.
The trouble with installing anything on windows be it
a media player like QT, real player or Windows Media
Player is they all want to become the de-facto player,
then you have to wrestle with it to relinquish
control. Same goes for image formats, I installed Nero
on the PC, a CDR burning program, did not see that
little check box and it had become the default viewer
for jpeg's Doh!
Phil
PS. Well done on your $1000 recorder challenge, i look
forward to pt2?
--- Rob Danielson <> wrote:
>
> At 9:31 AM -0500 4/2/07, Curt Olson wrote:
> >Rob Danielson wrote:
> >
> >> Since the replacement for mp3 comes from the
> quicktime system I expect
> >> that folks will be using it more.
> >
> >Rob, what file format are you referring to here?
> And how far out,
> >time-wise, do you see it as becoming a viable
> replacement?
> >
> >Curt Olson
>
>
> Perhaps some quotation scrambling. I believe Walt
> wrote this.
>
> I assume he is referring to ACC (iTunes default
> format and also the
> default format for mp4 QT movies). From what I can
> sense, I don't
> anticipate ACC replacing the way people use mp3's
> nor would I want it
> to. That audio folk have one a fairly universal
> format to use/share
> is a treat. I use 192-256 kbps mp3's when having the
> original is not
> critical and ACC's sound no better to me. I changed
> my iTunes
> default to mp3 and most of my audio apps will now
> automatically
> import/convert mp3's. WinXP folks may not be able to
> play ACC, even
> with QT7. That would be good to test. Rob D.
>
>
>
>
>
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