to be more exact are there any mp3 players in the market that can play aacplus (aac+)?

well as aac+ sound quality is quite good at lower bit rates compared to mp3 even with 1gb you would be able to carry quite a lot of music around...

Edit: looking around none support AACplus as far as I can see - in fact it appears that iPods are one of the only ones that support AAC now (Sony's players certainly used to, as Ihave one of their mp3 cd-walkmans that I'm sure can play AAC files).

EDIT AGAIN: Sony use Atrac which is supposed to be similar to AAC+ .
Last edited by cmc 42 : 21-08-2006 at 14:30

yeah but i read that iPods are only keen on playing apple encoded AAC files and not others.

but the strange thing is that a lot of new mobile phones do support aacplus files.

hmm... just done a google search and I got:

Motorola
Samsung
LG

Now they're all mobile phones. I can't find any MP3 players that support AAC+

I don't know whether the new Nokia (which is rather a bricky phone) with it's massive memory supports AAC+

But then that all depends on whether you would be okay with using your mobile as an mp3 player

EDIT: Just did a search on pricerunner for aac+ and it took me straight to the mobile phones page. So if you want to use that format you'll have to have a mobile phone. The Nokia N91 seems to be getting a lot of good reviews at the moment
Last edited by cmc 42 : 21-08-2006 at 22:22

But they don't play AACplus. I'm not sure of a hardware player but if you have a Palm and install TCPMP and the AACplus decoder it works fine. I recently batch converted all the albums I'd stored in lossless flac into 64k AACplus; I'm amazed at how much I can store on there now.

Apparently AACplus is still evolving; some of the latest encoders are supposed to make 48k tracks sound reasonable.

can the file format (ie mp3, aac, wma) affect battery performance on a phone or even on a mp3 player?

Yes.

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