aacplus does sound great, even at 32kbs bitrate. It's developed by Coding Technologies ( http://www.codingtechnologies.com/products/aacPlus.htm ). There is an article about it on slate ( http://slate.com/Default.aspx?id=2112548&; ). about Licensing-- http://www.codingtechnologies.com/licensing/aacplus.htm I actually send an email inquiry to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and I am waiting for a reply. aacplus is an enhanced MPEG4-audio. it plays in winamp and vlc. Does it play in xmms and other linux audio players? I guess it shoud.! guerrier > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:58:29 -0600 > From: "Steven Clift" <slc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [linux-audio-user] AacPlus compared to Ogg > To: <linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <02cc01c50257$7520eeb0$6500a8c0@PUBLICUS2> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > I understand the licensing differences between Ogg and MP3. What about > the newer aacPlus? > > The new KCMP is using aacPlus because they claim they can webcast near > CD-quality with a pretty small stream: > http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/thecurrent/ > (It is great! > > I am trying to get them to add Ogg and MP3 to reach more people. > > Steve > > Steven Clift - http://publicus.net - Reply to: clift@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Join DoWire: http://dowire.org > E-Democracy: http://e-democracy.org > > ------------------------------
