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Electric Monk
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2005-08-11, 18:21

AAC will sound better at equivalent or slightly lower bitrates. AAC is harder to transport on CD's given that many players only support MP3's.
That's it.
However MP3 encoded with LAME are very very near to AAC quality and can of course be VBR (Variable Bit Rate) files. Although you can make AAC files that are VBRs, you have to use quicktime and convert the .mov container.

AACplus/HE AAC and AACplus v.2 improve AAC at lower bitrates.


I personally use LAME and rip 160-192k VBR MP3's as my personal best compromise between sound quality and size.


Edit: Looks like Luca beat me to it. But I still mentioned LAME so I'm on top... Mad laughter.

Last edited by Electric Monk : 2005-08-11 at 18:22.
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