AAC is really:

 <audio> (AAC) A successor to MP3, allowing lower bit rates
and more stable quality.

according to dictionary.com.




--- Tim Hammerquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Sam Phillips wrote:
> > Tim Hammerquist wrote:
> > > ogg - free, unencumbered audio codec. [...]
> > 
> > Ogg is not an audio codec.  Ogg is a generic media
> wrapper
> > (kinda like quicktime.)  Ogg Vorbis is the lossy audio
> codec
> > that everyone calls Ogg.
> 
> True.  Thanks for clarifying.
> 
> Also, on a similar note, let me add that, while most of
> the
> codecs I listed were by the file extension most commonly
> associated with them, the entry for AAC was incomplete.
> 
> AAC (I presume one of the A's stands for Apple, but I
> think
> I heard somewhere that that's not true) encoded files are
> usually found with either a '.m4a' or '.m4p' extension,
> the
> former being a normal AAC-encoded file, the latter being
> 'protected' (ie, DRM'd).  Songs you "import" in iTunes in
> AAC
> will have a '.m4a' extension; songs purchased on iTunes
> Music
> Store will have '.m4p'.
> 
> I believe the extension is because the AAC encoder uses
> an MPEG4
> container, like the Ogg Vorbis codec is found in an Ogg
> wrapper.
> 
> My USD$0.05... scattered about like my thoughts,
> Tim
> -- 
> Two penguins were walking on an iceberg.  The first
> penguin
> said to the second, "you look like you are wearing a
> tuxedo."
> The second penguin said, "I might be..."
>     --David Lynch, Twin Peaks
> 
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