Posted by NRen2k5 on 01/02/06 14:53

Yup.

But iTunes will have the average Joe thinking "MP3 sucks, AAC rocks".
And then it'll come as a shock to him that most MP3 players don't
support AAC, but he'll just shrug and buy an iPod.

Average Joe doesn't know or even care about what's available; he just
uses what you sell him

- NRen2k5

Warren Oates wrote:

>In article <Cj1uf.3432$DQ4.371441@weber.videotron.net>,
> NRen2k5 <napsterneorenegade@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
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>>It's deliberate: They have a crappy MP3 encoder in iTunes so that
>>comparatively their AAC format sounds a lot better. So people will use
>>AAC, and if they ever want to get an MP3 player, it /must/ be an iPod.
>>
>>
>
>But if you're using iTunes with a Mac, your stock OS comes with LAME, or
>you can build a fancy new "nightly" of it, and it _is_ a good MP3
>encoder. And there are front-ends for the CLI-challenged.
>

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