Talk:High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding
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iPod/iTunes support
220.253.77.88 21:32, 13 May 2007 (UTC)"As of 2007, neither iTunes, nor iPod does support HE-AAC. Only MPEG 2 AAC (MPEG 2 Audio - part 3) is supported so the only players for Mac OS X are VLC (without metadata/title streaming) and Songbird."
Is this statement specific to streaming, because iPod supports MPEG-4 AAC?
- Sort of. Don't confuse the MPEG-4 container format (denoted by filename extension) with the MPEG-4 High Efficiency extensions to MPEG-2's Low Complexity AAC. As I understand it, currently, no AAC streaming whatsoever is supported by iTunes. Playback of static LC-AAC files is possible, but I don't know if the LC-AAC data has to be in an MPEG-4 container or if raw .aac will play as well. According to the iTunes article, HE-AAC static files are playable but they're decoded at 22 kHz, thus cutting off the high end (and making the rest sound slightly fuzzier). —mjb 21:51, 13 May 2007 (UTC)