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Title: Conversion to AAC -- no option?
Post by: d_pert on December 20, 2019, 10:16:10 am

Hi,

Not being an expert: the consensus seems to be (strongly) that when lossy is neccessary/desired, AAC is preferred to MP3, so long as the player is compatible, due to higher efficiency (similar quality at lower bitrates).

I was about to convert several thousand library source files of varying formats to AAC for a handheld, and discovered there is no option to convert to AAC available.

Questions: Was this an ommission by design, and, is there any plan to add AAC output to MC?

P.S. -- a) I'm aware of the workarounds involving external encoder(s) but would prefer to avoid that. b) This post is not intended to start any discussion about percieved sound quality differences MP3 vs. AAC. ;)

Thank you so much.

Title: Re: Conversion to AAC -- no option?
Post by: Hendrik on December 20, 2019, 10:18:02 am

We plan to add a AAC option in MC26.

Title: Re: Conversion to AAC -- no option?
Post by: d_pert on December 20, 2019, 10:20:57 am

Hooray! Thank you.

Any approximate time frame? If it's imminent, I may hold off doing my large conversion(s) for handheld(s).

Thanks again.

Title: Re: Conversion to AAC -- no option?
Post by: Hendrik on December 20, 2019, 10:24:50 am

Probably not that imminent with the holidays now, and some other tasks being in front of it.

Title: Re: Conversion to AAC -- no option?
Post by: d_pert on December 20, 2019, 10:31:09 am

Okay thanks.

Actually ... I was also considering going to ALAC, but I'm stumped on another front re: how to reduce bit-depth 24>16 in the handheld sync conversion settings. I posted on that topic, too, a few minutes ago:

Updated: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,123443.0.html

Thank you.

Title: Re: Conversion to AAC -- no option?
Post by: RoderickGI on December 20, 2019, 06:05:51 pm

In the meantime, I use QAAC64.exe.

It can found in various places, but I think this is the primary site these days: https://sites.google.com/site/qaacpage/

Or maybe it is GitHub, https://github.com/nu774/qaac, where there are Command Line Parameters listed, including a "--bits-per-sample" parameter for ALAC. https://github.com/nu774/qaac/wiki/Command-Line-Options

See image for settings I use.