Fraunhofer pushes HD-AAC. iTunes 8 support?

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in Mac Software edited January 2014
HD-AAC PDF



HD-AAC is based on MPEG4 Scalable to Lossless (SLS) technology. This appears to allow you to encode a Near Lossless or Lossles audio file yet extract a core "Lossy" component for streaming.



Quote:

In the professional music sector,

HD-AAC enables lossless storage and

editing of music data at sampling rates

up to 192 kHz. From the same file, an

AAC version at 48 kHz can be streamed

to portable devices.



This could be ideal if Apple revamps Apple Lossless Encoding to support this scalable feature. I'd love to have my iTunes music in Lossless yet still be able to push out a lower bitrate lossy file to selected iPods.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 1
    Niiicee. I'd love to use this over ALAC. I hope this is a supported feature. There are tons of goodies I hope will be added in iTunes 8.
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