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JERIC
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About time but not too late. If it were sooner we would have never even had MP3 streams. Yay for RealPlayer too. I downloaded the latest version and it is actually pretty nice compared to the junk it used to be.
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philk
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| Pity to see that ogg goes. Its by far the best codec and sounds incredible. I will try out aacPlus. Although its not a free format, is it? |
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JERIC
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It is not open source but it will not cost you any money.
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philk
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I know that it does not cost *me* money  But I am always for supporting a free and open format rather than some industry "standard" pushed forward by some company. Now, from listening to aacPlus the whole morning it does sound a little dull and heights are not as clear as with ogg 128k. But this could also be a placebo effect |
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thejoyrider
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i had no idea aac was a formidable codec. i'll try this stream next time. thanks.
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SYS64738
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| Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 2:18 am Post subject: |
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I miss the ogg stream too. Oh well, just like 8-tracks, VCRs and CDs, time marches on. The aac stream isn't bad though except I haven't found a nice and compact console based player for it.  |
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j2brown
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| Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:44 am Post subject: |
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I use mplayer under Linux just fine, SYS64738. Is that an option for you?
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SYS64738
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| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:37 am Post subject: |
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| I use mplayer under Linux just fine, SYS64738. Is that an option for you? |
I have tried mplayer on the server but it won't seem to play. I haven't had a lot of time to tinker with it and find out why and I likely won't bother trying to either. Everything is ssh to the server. There is no monitor or keyboard connected. I also don't have any graphical remote login of any kind on it. But it sits atop of the shelves and I could leave it run in the background while I worked without problems so it was a convenience.
I am not stuck. Lots of other machines around to play the aac stream on. |
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AdamR
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| aac stream works fine for me with foobar2000. Shame I had to dump my vorbis streams but oh well. This will work too. |
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