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Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits has stopped providing licenses for MP3 technology, "[...] noting that more superior audio formats have rendered the MP3 obsolete. Speaking to National Public Radio (USA), the Fraunhofer Institute said AAC has since become the 'de facto standard for music download and videos on mobile phones.' "

...PS) is the superb audio encoder used to encode high quality audio at really low bitrates (32 kbit/s). Quote from Wikipedia "Data from this testing also indicated that some individuals confused 48 kbit/s encoded material with an uncompressed original." In order to quickly compile your ?libaacplus library, you can type the following commands in your shell: # apt-get install libfftw3-dev pkg-config autoconf automake libtool unzip $ wget http://tipok.org.ua/downloads/media/aacplus/libaacplus/libaacplus-2.0.2.tar.gz $ tar -xzf libaacplus-2.0.2.tar.gz $ cd libaacplus-2.0.2 $ ./autogen.sh --en...

...dio encoder used to >encode high quality audio at really low bitrates (32 kbit/s). Quote from >Wikipedia "Data from this testing also indicated that some individuals >confused 48 kbit/s encoded material with an uncompressed original." > >In order to quickly compile your ?libaacplus library, you can type the >following commands in your shell: > ># apt-get install libfftw3-dev pkg-config autoconf automake libtool unzip >$ wget >http://tipok.org.ua/downloads/media/aacplus/libaacplus/libaacplus-2.0.2.tar.gz >$ tar -xzf libaacplus-2.0.2.tar.gz >$ cd libaacpl...

...cence. This sounds like it would violate the license, given that the FAQ on http://www.via-corp.com/us/en/licensing/aac/faq.html states: > An AAC patent license is needed by manufacturers or developers of > end-user encoder and/or decoder products. Additionally on the authors website for libaacplus it clearly says: > These tarballs don't provide any 3GPP source code. It is downloaded > from 3GPP during compilation. To use package compiled by this code, > you may need a license from 3GPP. > > AAC+ codecs incorporate several patents, held by Philips, Dolby, > Ericsson...

...t would violate the license, given that the FAQ on > http://www.via-corp.com/us/en/licensing/aac/faq.html states: > >> An AAC patent license is needed by manufacturers or developers of >> end-user encoder and/or decoder products. > > Additionally on the authors website for libaacplus it clearly says: > >> These tarballs don't provide any 3GPP source code. It is downloaded >> from 3GPP during compilation. To use package compiled by this code, >> you may need a license from 3GPP. >> >> AAC+ codecs incorporate several patents, held by Philips...

seems to be AACPlus. And it's not surprising given how good it sounds. I'm not so sure about device support though, and encoding it is a bit of an issue (see above). There is libaacplus, but streamTranscoderv3 doesn't *appear* to support it. I think Liquid Soap might though. There's also something called AACPlusEnc but I can't seem to get to its home page. While we're considering non-free options, Windows Media Audio would seem to be out due to the desire to...

seems to be AACPlus. And it's not surprising given how good it sounds. I'm not so sure about device support though, and encoding it is a bit of an issue (see above). There is libaacplus, but streamTranscoderv3 doesn't *appear* to support it. I think Liquid Soap might though. There's also something called AACPlusEnc but I can't seem to get to its home page. While we're considering non-free options, Windows Media Audio would seem to be out due to the desire to enc...

...t would violate the license, given that the FAQ on > http://www.via-corp.com/us/en/licensing/aac/faq.html states: > >> An AAC patent license is needed by manufacturers or developers of >> end-user encoder and/or decoder products. > > Additionally on the authors website for libaacplus it clearly says: > >> These tarballs don't provide any 3GPP source code. It is downloaded >> from 3GPP during compilation. To use package compiled by this code, >> you may need a license from 3GPP. >> >> AAC+ codecs incorporate several patents, held by Philips...

...t would violate the license, given that the FAQ on > http://www.via-corp.com/us/en/licensing/aac/faq.html states: > >> An AAC patent license is needed by manufacturers or developers of >> end-user encoder and/or decoder products. > > Additionally on the authors website for libaacplus it clearly says: > >> These tarballs don't provide any 3GPP source code. It is downloaded >> from 3GPP during compilation. To use package compiled by this code, >> you may need a license from 3GPP. >> >> AAC+ codecs incorporate several patents, held by Philips...

...cense, given that the FAQ on >> http://www.via-corp.com/us/en/licensing/aac/faq.html states: >> >>> An AAC patent license is needed by manufacturers or developers of >>> end-user encoder and/or decoder products. >> >> Additionally on the authors website for libaacplus it clearly says: >> >>> These tarballs don't provide any 3GPP source code. It is downloaded >>> from 3GPP during compilation. To use package compiled by this code, >>> you may need a license from 3GPP. >>> >>> AAC+ codecs incorporate several pa...

...o means an expert on this. >From the little I've seen, the favoured option for lower bitrate streaming seems to be AACPlus. And it's not surprising given how good it sounds. I'm not so sure about device support though, and encoding it is a bit of an issue (see above). There is libaacplus, but streamTranscoderv3 doesn't *appear* to support it. I think Liquid Soap might though. There's also something called AACPlusEnc but I can't seem to get to its home page. While we're considering non-free options, Windows Media Audio would seem to be out due to the desire to...