{"id":733,"date":"2009-09-23T00:36:26","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T04:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/?p=733"},"modified":"2009-09-23T00:36:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T04:36:26","slug":"aac-encoding-in-snow-leopard-or-itunes-9-x-dramatically-improved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/2009\/09\/aac-encoding-in-snow-leopard-or-itunes-9-x-dramatically-improved\/","title":{"rendered":"AAC Encoding in Snow Leopard or iTunes 9.x Dramatically Improved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Figures show it all.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/?attachment_id=737\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-737\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/tori.png\" alt=\"tori\" title=\"tori\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-737\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/NIN.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/NIN.png\" alt=\"NIN\" title=\"NIN\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-734\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/faye.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/faye.png\" alt=\"faye\" title=\"faye\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-735\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>XLD is app on Mac OS X that uses CoreAudio to encode AAC. Basically that&#8217;s what iTunes was using.<\/p>\n<p>My parameter for XLD was:<br \/>\nTrue VBR<br \/>\nEncoder quality: Max<br \/>\nTarget quality: ~111<br \/>\nResulted bitrate is around 256kbps, sometimes over 300kbps<\/p>\n<p>Nero 1.3.3.0 was used for my older encodings<br \/>\nAnd I used Foobar2000 to encode and choose the best settings I could. And resulted in ~200kbps file.<\/p>\n<p>What does this mean?<br \/>\nI know eventually for SQ we need listen test. But these graph suggest dramatic improvement of compression? Or not.<br \/>\nIf it is indeed improvement, I probably have to ditch all my nero encoded files&#8230;And redo all the rip and such. Painful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figures show it all. XLD is app on Mac OS X that uses CoreAudio to encode AAC. Basically that&#8217;s what iTunes was using. My parameter for XLD was: True VBR Encoder quality: Max Target quality: ~111 Resulted bitrate is around 256kbps, sometimes over 300kbps Nero 1.3.3.0 was used for my older encodings And I used&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/2009\/09\/aac-encoding-in-snow-leopard-or-itunes-9-x-dramatically-improved\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AAC Encoding in Snow Leopard or iTunes 9.x Dramatically Improved?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,9],"tags":[37,174,255,105],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","category-music","category--apple","tag-apple","tag-audiophile","tag-it","tag-itunes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}