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AAC codec for 68k?
« on: February 19, 2009, 04:51:17 AM »
Recently I have begun playing with the AAC codec (in m4a wrapper) for my music, and have found it to be a wonderful change from MP3.

Of course I would like to share this with my Amiga.  There are quite a lot of MP3 utilities for the 68k Amiga, but little for AAC.  I searched AmiNet and found faad2 for 68k listed, but have not yet played with it -- it looks like it has a command line decoder, but nothing to play real-time.

What I would like to find is something which would play AAC files in 68k, like a plugin for AMP.  Although, I believe the complexity might be such that it would require a DSP like the Delfina for playback.

Anyone have any thoughts or information on this?
 

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Re: AAC codec for 68k?
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2009, 10:24:59 AM »
@LoadWB:

On Aminet there's PlayOGG, which supports a myriad of formats including AAC.

Here it is: http://aminet.net/package/mus/play/playOGG

 

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Re: AAC codec for 68k?
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2009, 10:42:52 AM »
Which is better?  .mp3, .ogg or .aac?
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Re: AAC codec for 68k?
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2009, 11:21:56 AM »
ogg is lossless compression? better?
 

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Re: AAC codec for 68k?
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2009, 11:31:23 AM »
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stefcep2 wrote:
ogg is lossless compression? better?



Ogg is NOT lossless!
 

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Re: AAC codec for 68k?
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2009, 11:34:38 AM »
But Ogg Vorbis does have better compression, at least compared to MP3. Dunno about AAC.

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Re: AAC codec for 68k?
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2009, 03:40:40 PM »
I have found AAC at 128kbps to produce MUCH better sound quality than MP3s with VBR-encoding (via lame 3.98 library, anyway.)

Since the equipment I deal with supports MP3 and AAC, I have not tried Ogg Vorbis.  I'll check out PlayOgg to see how it handles AAC files this weekend when I have a half-hour to spare.
 

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Re: AAC codec for 68k?
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2009, 06:54:34 PM »
MP3 sucks at 128 kbps but is pretty good to excellent at 192 or 256 kbps - obviously more modern codecs score better.
 

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