Issue with the new AAC/M4a encoder

[justtosay]

Re: Issue with the new AAC/M4a encoder

I see your point, but you did mention that nero will still be available: http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthre...l=1*post135956
Was there external pressure from nero to specifically not offer nero aac option anymore?
Also, I believe "beats the nero codec hands down" was FhG aac encoder bundled with winamp, not fdk aac, which is similar and related but not the same: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/...dpost&p=830395
There is no doubt that fdk aac is another good option to have, but can we have previous option back along with new option?

[Spoon]

Re: Issue with the new AAC/M4a encoder

The codec cannot do VBR, but that is not to say if you encode at around 205kbps CBR that the results would be worse than the nero codec, as far as I know this FDK codec beats the nero codec hands down.

[Notac]

Re: Issue with the new AAC/M4a encoder

It would make little sense to use HE at 200kbps, unless I miss understand you

The reason I chose those options, was that it gave me a file , encoder at LCVBR at approx 205kbps without having to mess with all other settings.

This new encoder has no options other than bit rate.
Where are the options for ABR, CBR and VBR

How would I get a file from this new encoder in VBR at approx 205kbps

I have looked at it again and cannot see how to change from CBR to VBR

[dbfan]

Re: Issue with the new AAC/M4a encoder

It would make little sense to use HE at 200kbps, unless I miss understand you

[justtosay]

Re: Issue with the new AAC/M4a encoder

It would also be nice to see qaac encoder as package as well (apple will continue to offer itunes/quicktime, right?)...but I'd not be too critical on that.

[justtosay]

Re: Issue with the new AAC/M4a encoder

I too ask that nero option should be brought back. I think admin previously mentioned nero will still be offered but nowhere I can find download from m4a page.
I see that change to fdk-aac gives certain advantage like not depending on nero but why delete nero support for that?
Few problems from fdk-aac to list are 1) like above, not much option other than cbr 2) being an open source library derived from the Android library, its quality doesn't fare well with comparison to its big brother FhG encoder(mostly same).
I never really had any problems with dbPoweramp and it worked to my expectation so far without any complaints to be made. However a new version offering smaller option set than previous version? I now cannot do what I used to do with previous version with new version! Please bring back the option.

[Notac]

I appreciate that you are trying to have all the codecs in house so that you can support them, but the new aac/m4a encoder has no real options.

With the old Nero, I could chose VBR - Quality 1 and force HE profile, this would give me a file of approx 225bits.

The new encoder has no option to choose between abr, cbr and vbr,

I set the bitrate to max and choose the HE profile and it gave me approx 112 bitrate cbr LC profile

Can you please package up the Nero encoder for this release as I now have no way to encode to aac/m4a with my new rips that is consistent with my prior rips.

Only other option is to find historical install of older version of dbpoweramp and codecs