Talk:Advanced Audio Coding

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AAC vs MP3

While AAC has some technical advantages over MP3, blind listening tests suggests there is no statistically significant advantage in quality: http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/sebastian/mf-128-1/results.htm I would suggest we remove "Depending on the AAC profile and the MP3 encoder, 96 kbit/s AAC can give nearly the same or better perceptual quality as 128 kbit/s MP3" -- while it may be technically true, its a worthless statement. Best in class encoders of each type cant be differentiated. Adamc83 (talk) 09:58, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Removed dubious section, since there was no objection or commentary. Adamc83 (talk) 07:54, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The deleted cite was archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20050430031411/http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/aac/

Note that the wording there was a bit different than in the wp article.LeadSongDog come howl! 13:43, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DRM-Free

Article has: As of January 6, 2009, nearly all music on the iTunes Store became DRM-free, with the remainder becoming DRM-free by the end of March 2009.[41]

Incorrect, but my edit was auto-reverted. Could someone with some edit history add this in?

"nearly all music on the US region iTunes Store" is correct. Other countries, such as Japan, still had DRM laden music until 2012. http://9to5mac.com/2012/02/22/in-japan-itunes-gains-ringtones-3g-purchasing-itunes-plus-complete-my-album-itunes-in-the-cloud/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.0.17.60 (talk) 15:09, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]