Posted by (PeteCresswell) on 10/22/06 00:46

Per Broadway Blue:
>Why would the OP buy an AAC file format track from iTunes if he
>wanted an MP3 file format track? If it's on iTunes, the track must be
>available online somewhere else in MP3 format surely?

Ignorance - at least that's my own excuse.

Not realizing how proprietary a format AAC was, I ripped my entire CD collection
to it shortly after buying my iPod.

Now I know better and rip only to MP3.

But this whole discussion begs a question:

I've heard it said that AAC was just the audio portion of MP4 with Apple's DRM
wrapper around it.

True?

If so, the question: Assuming that MP4 is portable (maybe not as portable as
mp3, but at least not proprietary)... shouldn't somebody by now have written a
utility to strip of the DRM wrapper from a non-protected AAC file (i.e. one
that the user ripped, not one that's PW protected from Apple) and create an MP4
from it with no loss in quality?
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PeteCresswell

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