Shoot fired before I was finished...ugh.

AAC stands for Advanced Audio Coding.

> 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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> 
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