Posted by CQ on 08/26/05 02:44

In article <IBuPe.5389$vR3.195814@wagner.videotron.net>, NRen2k5 said...

> > What "changes" have they made to AAC. . .

> Their encoder.

You've moved completely away from the original point of this thread. You
do recall what that was, right?

They may tune the codec, like some others have, but they are still using
the standard AAC algorithm and the files are just AAC files with DRM
enabled.

> Like anybody else, they tune it.

Right. Seems like they have been known for tuning it better than anyone
else.

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/9217

> At HydrogenAudio, some time ago,
> I had read that
> a certain I-Tunes update resulted in AAC encodings that
> didn't sound quite as good as those made
> with the earlier version.

Well that certainly explains things, narrows them right down and puts the
nail in the lid.

Could you possibly be any LESS specific?
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CQ

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