Apple AAC Plug-in Comming soon?

[top5recrds]

Ever get one of those Apple gift certificates to download music and learn that their not MP3 files but AAC some bastard form of MP3 that only ITunes can play and or record. Well maybe someone can tell me if you can convert these files to at least play w/Quin, or if someone working on a Plug-In for these files or is there a program that will convert these files to MP3 something so I can get rid of ITunes. "Help!" . :rolleyes:

[Toe]

Actually, aside from basic stuff like being a transform-based psychoacoustic audio compression and being developed by the same company, AAC is not a "bastard form of MP3" but a whole seperate standard. And most consider AAC to be a vastly superior format to AAC.

The music from Apple's store is MPEG-4 AAC wrapped up in Apple's proprietary digital rights management (copy protection) system. Normally the DRM would prevent you from playing the tracks on anything but Apple's own players. But fortunately good ol' DVD Jon (the guy who cracked the CSS encryption on DVDs) has apparently cracked the DRM lock on iTunes songs (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34712.html).

For you, this means that someday (I'd say probably within the next couple months) you'll be able to run a cracker on your iTunes tracks and they'll be playable in QCD with the existing MP4 plugin without need for further conversion. (converting the tracks to MP3 would degrade the quality)

As a side note, you can use Nero (as in the CD burning software) to encode your own MP4/AAC tracks without any DRM bullshit.

[Hanzo]

Actually, aside from basic stuff like being a transform-based psychoacoustic audio compression and being developed by the same company, AAC is not a "bastard form of MP3" but a whole seperate standard. And most consider AAC to be a vastly superior format to AAC.

The music from Apple's store is MPEG-4 AAC wrapped up in Apple's proprietary digital rights management (copy protection) system. Normally the DRM would prevent you from playing the tracks on anything but Apple's own players. But fortunately good ol' DVD Jon (the guy who cracked the CSS encryption on DVDs) has apparently cracked the DRM lock on iTunes songs (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34712.html).

For you, this means that someday (I'd say probably within the next couple months) you'll be able to run a cracker on your iTunes tracks and they'll be playable in QCD with the existing MP4 plugin without need for further conversion. (converting the tracks to MP3 would degrade the quality)

As a side note, you can use Nero (as in the CD burning software) to encode your own MP4/AAC tracks without any DRM bullshit.
I just wonder when the big buck companies will stop trying to "protect" media. I mean they thought that DVD was unbreakable, so with some other formats and eventually, they were all cracked. And definetly Apple's propietary format will eventually experience the same that DVD.

All right for DVD Jon... he's the man ! :D

[acozz]

Right now all you can do is burn the tracks to a CD and then rip them into whatever format you'd like.

[JEdwardP]

...someday (I'd say probably within the next couple months) you'll be able to run a cracker on your iTunes tracks and they'll be playable in QCD with the existing MP4 plugin....

I'm surprised someone hasn't already made a version of the Winamp iTunes input plug-in for QCD. That way we could at least PLAY iTunes in QCD.

As I mentioned in some earlier post, I now use the Winamp plug-in to play iTunes with 1by1.

[acozz]

Use this: http://www.quinnware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=565