Don't people buy Portable CD players any more? I have one that can play MP3s
that have been burned onto a CD. I think you can even get them with built in
Memory, unless I dreamt that..... Would be a good idea if it hasn't already
been done.

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Stimpy wrote:
DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:

In addition, sticking with MP3 allows the use of players other than
iTunes.

True, plus MP3 car stereos. But hopefully, over time, AAC will become
more widely supported. A lot of people even seem to think it's
Apple's own format, which it aint.

Really?? Blimey, I always assumed it was Apple's own format as well
- I live and learn! :-)


Nope, it started out as MPEG-2 "NBC" (non-backward compatible) and now
it's MPEG-4:

http://www.vialicensing.com/products.../standard.html

There's a good article about it he

http://www.telos-systems.com/techtal...er_2/AAC_3.PDF (3.6 MB)

or a briefer, less technical version of the article he

http://www.telos-systems.com/news/re...092601_aac.pdf


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