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Subject:AAC Posted by: mjeff1 Date:1/8/2004 8:32:44 PM Is the a SF plugin to save in AAC format?
Subject:RE: AAC Reply by: Iacobus Date:1/9/2004 12:39:05 PM Not that I know of. You might want to contact Apple (since that's the format their iTunes site uses) and see if they can arrange something with Sony? (Don't hold your breath, though. They have competing apps. I know there are other apps that can work with the format, but only if the system is authorized to work with the specific file, amongst other things.) Iacobus ------- RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid mD's ACIDplanet Page
Subject:RE: AAC Reply by: mjeff1 Date:1/15/2004 12:15:37 AM > You might want to contact Apple Well... AAC is an open format developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group. Just because Apple implemented it first does not mean that Sony would need Apple's permission or help to do the same. I would have thought that there would at least have been a third party plugin available.
Subject:RE: AAC Reply by: planders Date:1/15/2004 4:13:45 PM Since it's a format with rights management features and licensing requirements, I can't imagine it being included "free" with Sound Forge or any other editor. That said, it's certainly possible that MainConcept would add it to their MPEG plugin, either the standalone encoder or the bundled one included with SF. Probably wouldn't appear before the next major upgrade, though. Depending on the licensing terms, it might have to remain a separate purchase (like the AC-3 pack for ACID).
Subject:RE: AAC Reply by: Iacobus Date:1/16/2004 1:42:07 PM Actually, you're right...to a point. RealNetworks, from what I've heard, is also gearing up to release its own version of the AAC format...complete with its own digital rights technology. (See where I'm going here?) This could be a snafu, because the versions of AAC won't be exactly interchangeable. You'll have AAC-Apple/iTunes and AAC-Real. AAC's bought at iTunes should be playable on RealPlayer 10, but AAC's bought from Real won't be playable on iTunes. (See the CNET story here.) Iacobus ------- RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid mD's ACIDplanet Page

Subject:AAC

Posted by: mjeff1

Date:1/8/2004 8:32:44 PM

Is the a SF plugin to save in AAC format?

Subject:RE: AAC

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:1/9/2004 12:39:05 PM

Not that I know of. You might want to contact Apple (since that's the format their iTunes site uses) and see if they can arrange something with Sony? (Don't hold your breath, though. They have competing apps. I know there are other apps that can work with the format, but only if the system is authorized to work with the specific file, amongst other things.)

Iacobus
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RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid
mD's ACIDplanet Page

Subject:RE: AAC

Reply by: mjeff1

Date:1/15/2004 12:15:37 AM

> You might want to contact Apple

Well... AAC is an open format developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group. Just because Apple implemented it first does not mean that Sony would need Apple's permission or help to do the same.

I would have thought that there would at least have been a third party plugin available.

Subject:RE: AAC

Reply by: planders

Date:1/15/2004 4:13:45 PM

Since it's a format with rights management features and licensing requirements, I can't imagine it being included "free" with Sound Forge or any other editor. That said, it's certainly possible that MainConcept would add it to their MPEG plugin, either the standalone encoder or the bundled one included with SF. Probably wouldn't appear before the next major upgrade, though.

Depending on the licensing terms, it might have to remain a separate purchase (like the AC-3 pack for ACID).

Subject:RE: AAC

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:1/16/2004 1:42:07 PM

Actually, you're right...to a point.

RealNetworks, from what I've heard, is also gearing up to release its own version of the AAC format...complete with its own digital rights technology. (See where I'm going here?)

This could be a snafu, because the versions of AAC won't be exactly interchangeable. You'll have AAC-Apple/iTunes and AAC-Real. AAC's bought at iTunes should be playable on RealPlayer 10, but AAC's bought from Real won't be playable on iTunes.

(See the CNET story here.)

Iacobus
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RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid
mD's ACIDplanet Page