What's wrong with m4a?As I understand it, it's just an MP4 container, with an 'a' as a reminder that it's got audio content inside.
(I have no axe to grind, btw)
((I have no axe to grind, btw)
Bee Nice |-|,
Thu 22 Oct 2009, 14:13,
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It's a hack.The compression is useless, it's impossible to encode it in a decent and specific way, such as you can with MP3. It's also horrendous to use on a Windows machine.
I fail to see why anyone would choose to use M4A over MP3 - there are absolutely zero benefits.
(I fail to see why anyone would choose to use M4A over MP3 - there are absolutely zero benefits.
Ttssattsr,
Thu 22 Oct 2009, 14:20,
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*is interested*(I'm assuming we're really talking about AAC here, versus "MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3" aka MP3).
I'm only going on Wikipedia stuff here, but I thought AAC achieved better compression -- ie. better fidelity for a given bit-rate? And that where MP3 introduces very noticeable compression artefacts, AAC distortion is less noticeable? (Err, these two might even be the same thing, perhaps). I'm just going on what I've been told, not what I've heard :-)
"encode in a decent & specific way" -- is this saying that MP3 has more knobs to twiddle? Why would you want that? Answers might be: to generate a specific audio distortion effect; to allow extreme compression (with distortion) but giving you the choice of what part (of the spectrum, I guess?) gets distorted).
Why is AAC bad on Windows?
Sorry for all the questions -- if there's a site or previous discussion that covers this, feel free to just point me at it instead!
Ta!
(I'm only going on Wikipedia stuff here, but I thought AAC achieved better compression -- ie. better fidelity for a given bit-rate? And that where MP3 introduces very noticeable compression artefacts, AAC distortion is less noticeable? (Err, these two might even be the same thing, perhaps). I'm just going on what I've been told, not what I've heard :-)
"encode in a decent & specific way" -- is this saying that MP3 has more knobs to twiddle? Why would you want that? Answers might be: to generate a specific audio distortion effect; to allow extreme compression (with distortion) but giving you the choice of what part (of the spectrum, I guess?) gets distorted).
Why is AAC bad on Windows?
Sorry for all the questions -- if there's a site or previous discussion that covers this, feel free to just point me at it instead!
Ta!
Bee Nice |-|,
Thu 22 Oct 2009, 14:34,
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