Binary Tuberculosis

Well I’m converting, no more MP3s for TB. I’m going all AAC baby. Why you ask? Well…

AAC has better compression and better audio quality. Well so do other formats, for example, Ogg Vorbis, which I am HUGE fan of, but alas the hardware support is lacking.

AAC works in my iPod, my PC, and my cell phone. But not my Portable MP3CD Player or my Car MP3CD Player. But on the bright side, I haven’t used my Portable MP3CD in a couple years and my new car doesn’t have a MP3CD Player (…bright side?). While Ogg Vorbis only works on my PC (maybe on my MP3CD Player with a firmware upgrade, but I haven’t bothered to check).

Stupid companies and their proprietary support for their codecs. Ogg Vorbis is free and open source with no royalties to pay to anybody, but good luck trying to get Apple to support it in the next iPod. Also, I won’t be buying any music from the iTunes store anytime soon. Their AAC songs are DRM coded, much like every online downloadable music store (except AllOfMp3.com, those guys rule). Bastards telling me where I can and can not listen to music that I paid for and bought legally.

So I’ll be ripping all my CDs to AAC now and I don’t believe I’ll come across any major problems. Maybe a few PC players, but I think Windows Media Player is the only major one that doesn’t come with an AAC codec, but who the hell listens to music through WMP anyway? Winamp, Foobar, iTunes…