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Old February 4th, 2006, 12:36 PM
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Talking AAC = iPod format?
Please excuse my ignorance, but I just want to know if AAC = mp4?

I used to have an iPod which I have since given away to my mother, but I still have lots of tracks in mp4, which I changed over to mp3, can I, now with rockbox, just use the mp4 files?
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Old February 4th, 2006, 12:42 PM
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AAC is basically MP4 to what I understand, if you converted the files to mp3 they will work fine with RB, however I dont think mp4 is supported by RB, and last check AAC definately wasnt.
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Old February 4th, 2006, 01:26 PM
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AAC is supported in Rockbox. It not yet up to realtime on iriver, but it is on iPod. Look at the bottom of this page: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/vie...ic=SoundCodecs
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Old February 4th, 2006, 01:32 PM
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To clarify the AAC = iPod format question no it is not. The iPod can play it but it an MPEG standard just like MP3.

MP3 = MPEG-1/2 layer III
AAC = MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding

This means they are both international open standards. Apple does back the format heavily and has an encoder built into Quicktime/iTunes however they do not own it.

MP4 is the container designed to be used with MPEG-4 media (of which AAC is a part). AAC is very commonly muxed into the .mp4 container (which Apple names .m4a for audio only files.)

Hope this clarifies things. For further clarification read this FAQ
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Old February 4th, 2006, 05:32 PM
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thank you, so from the answers so far

keep making them MP3's...right?
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Old February 4th, 2006, 06:36 PM
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As Febs said, its not fully supported yet on iriver, so I guess you'll have to. I'm hoping it will be supported so I can play my podcasts, instead of converting them which takes 5 mins per track.
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Old February 4th, 2006, 06:45 PM
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All the podcasts I get are in mp3....

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Old February 4th, 2006, 09:57 PM
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Yeah, but the only one I listen to(The Ricky Gervais show) can only be download in mp4 from itunes. I can get the mp3 from his site, but only recently now that I've installed firefox and can 'save target as'. (Content advisor in 1E6 wouldn't let me)
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thank you, so from the answers so far

keep making them MP3's...right?
Yes, I'd just stick with MP3 over AAC. Far fewer headaches.
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Old February 6th, 2006, 04:16 AM
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Swunk - you can get an MP3 podcast of the Ricky Gervais show:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/rickygervais
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Old February 6th, 2006, 04:29 AM
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Yeah, it's fine now with firefox, but like I said before I wasn't able to save target as in internet explorer.
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