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hexley on Oct 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Lossless Audio Codec is now open source (Apa...

QuickTime has a poor AAC encoder? I don't think you'll find anyone credible who seriously believes that.

ZeroGravitas on Oct 28, 2011 [–]

I think it used to be just okay, now I believe it's one of the best.

http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/igorc/aac-96-a/resu...

Maybe he was getting confused with Quicktime's rubbish H.264 encoder (or the low quality of the open source AAC encoder)?

ootachi on Oct 28, 2011 | [–]

Yeah, I was confused with the H.264 encoder (and the MP3 encoder). My mistake.

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