Re: Cutting Edge

I managed to update my win-pod to firmware 1.3 using the OS9 update file,
Laetitia's extractor, and the Podtronics updater.  Worked like a charm.  No
obvious improvements, though.

Anyone have any experience with AAC encoding?  The info on the apple site to
the fact that the mac pods support AAC playback with this firmware is
tantalizing.  Anyone have an opinion as to whether or not AAC encoding would
offer any actual audible improvement over MP3s on an iPod?

I managed to create a couple of AAC test files and even managed to tag them.
Finding encoding and playback software was kind of a pain, but I managed to
make files that were playable through Winamp2.  No way to send them to the
iPod, though, to see if they will play there.  I tried the brute force
approach: renaming the test.aac file to test.mp3 to see if Ephpod would xfer
it and read the tags.  No dice.

The 128 CBR AAC test file ended up being about 30% smaller than the high
quality MP3 VBR file, and sounded just as good when I gave it a cursory
listening test.

Joe: any desire on your part to add AAC support to Ephpod?



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To: Pete LePage
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Subject: [ephpod] Re: Cutting Edge



No kidding, I don't care about any of that stuff, all I want to be able to
do is queue songs up...

Eric

> That was my SINGLE complaint about my iPod.  I couldn't make play lists
> while away from my computer...


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