AAC FILE SUPPORT!!!!!!!!!!!

urbanaut · Post by **urbanaut** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:42 pm

The addition of mp3 support is great, but you really need to apply that to AAC files as well, which, in my opinion, are of a higher quality then mp3 files. If someone feels that this is incorrect, please feel free to explain the virtures and superiority of mp3 to AAC, but at this point, I feel that the exclusion of AAC files is not so good. Anyway, please someone at ableton, write me concerning your plans with this topic, if any.

Yours truely,
Urbanaut

amo · Post by **amo** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:45 pm

Hi,

Not wanting to be disrupting in your thread, but I think this looks more like a feature wish than a bug....

Regards,
amo

tylast · Post by **tylast** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:03 pm

Indeed...as there are already 2 threads over there saying the same thing.

StompyJ · Post by **StompyJ** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:44 pm

'feature / wishlist' forum

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:19 pm

As I understand it - Live 5 supports FLAC .. which is a free lossles audio codec as opposed to one dominated by an evil megacorp.

Eduard · Post by **Eduard** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 1:24 am

Moved to the feature whishes forum:

As already mentioned by others: Please lets dicuss this in he forum that was made for exactly these issues.

alan* · Post by alan* » Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:23 am

Angstrom wrote:As I understand it - Live 5 supports FLAC .. which is a free lossles audio codec as opposed to one dominated by an evil megacorp.

Yeah but flac is not built into apples operating system whereas aac and apple lossless formats already are and have to be worthy format for live ?

jbible · Post by **jbible** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 11:55 am

All these mac proprietary formats are stupid...when you can get something better and more widely used and supported via open source. All apple seems to be doing is taking open source technologies...and putting a little 'i' in front of it and calling it thier own proprietary innovation. If I were you I would try to avoid falling victim to the whole mac thing...the more you support these formats the more crap Apple will try to shove down your throat as thier own.

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:04 pm

it seems we have all fallen victim of the marketing of the evil apple headed one

wikipedia wrote:In April, 2003, Apple Computer brought mainstream attention to AAC by announcing that its iTunes and iPod products would support songs in MPEG-4 AAC format (via a firmware update for older iPods), and that customers could download popular songs in a protected version of the format via the iTunes Music Store. AAC has now become so associated with Apple hardware and software that people are commonly of the mistaken belief that AAC expands to "Apple Audio Codec." Optionally, a digital rights management scheme (named FairPlay) can be employed in tandem.

jbible · Post by **jbible** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:52 pm

I stand corrected I suppose.

alan* · Post by alan* » Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:28 pm

jbible wrote:All these mac proprietary formats are stupid...when you can get something better and more widely used and supported via open source. All apple seems to be doing is taking open source technologies...and putting a little 'i' in front of it and calling it thier own proprietary innovation. If I were you I would try to avoid falling victim to the whole mac thing...the more you support these formats the more crap Apple will try to shove down your throat as thier own.

let me ask you, are you predominantly a mac user or pc user ?

jbible · Post by **jbible** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:33 pm

PC. But I dont want to get into a mac vs pc dicussion. I dont really care...I use what I like...what works best for me. FLAC isnt built into PC either but its my favorite compressed format for audio. You cant beat lossless audio at half the file size of 16/44 wav.

tylast · Post by **tylast** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:37 pm

I'm considering changing to FLAC, but I just wish there were more (better) portable players that support it is all.

alan* · Post by alan* » Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:33 pm

jbible wrote:PC. But I dont want to get into a mac vs pc dicussion. I dont really care...I use what I like...what works best for me. FLAC isnt built into PC either but its my favorite compressed format for audio. You cant beat lossless audio at half the file size of 16/44 wav.

I dont want to get into a mac vs pc thing either they both have advantages and disadvantages.

The reason I asked is because if you were on mac you would probably look at it differently. I think apple lossles is very similar to flac by the sounds of it.

jbible · Post by **jbible** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:01 pm

alan* wrote:The reason I asked is because if you were on macyou would probably look at it differently. I think apple lossles is very similar to flac by the sounds of it.

Thats quite possible.