Questions About AAC+
Posted on March 8, 2011
Upon hearing about the advanced superiority of HE-AAC on TWiRT (This Week in Radio Tech) and in a conversation with RFBurns, who streams AAC+, I am exploring this interesting streaming format.
Upon hearing about the advanced superiority of HE-AAC on TWiRT (This Week in Radio Tech) and in a conversation with RFBurns, who streams AAC+, I am exploring this interesting streaming format.
Presently KDX streams using SAM Plugin for Winamp, which offers mp3 and mp3-PRO, with a mention that mp3-PRO is almost as good as AAC+, but none of my stuff actually achieves AAC+ streaming.
The only package I know of that offers AAC+ streaming is SAM Broadcaster, so I’ll probably get one.
But let me get to some questions.
EVERYBODY releases their radio programs and podcasts in mp3 format at the present time. So what would happen is that a lot of mp3 files would get sent over AAC+ stream. Is that good enough? Or, should we put as many shows as possible into AAC+ file format.
Will most listeners be able to hear an AAC+ stream, or will it remain necessary to keep an mp3 stream for some listeners?
What else would make a good question?
