Another player that will play .aac files?

octo

Hi Folks,

I'm a disgruntled ipod owner and I'm thinking of buying a new, and different, music player. The only problem is, I have around 30gigs of music in aac format. If I convert it to mp3 I'll lose a lot of quality.

So I was wondering, have any of you heard of another brand of music player that plays aac files? I know apple don't own the rights to aac. I've looked through most of the big manufacturers websites, but haven't seen anything yet.

Many thanks.

Bard

Why would you lose quality by converting to mp3? Surely if you use a decent bitrate you'll retain quality but just make the files bigger?

I don't know of any other player that plays .aac unfortunately. Why not convert to MP3, WAV or even FLAC and get the best brand of player out there - an iAudio?

Makaveli

If you transcode from one lossy format to another you will lose quality. The only option for octo would be to re-rip all of the cds again into mp3.

rubadub

Yes, quality is lost, it is like taking a photocopy of a photocopy. It gets worse and worse the more you do it.

Firetrap

I can't help you on other players that play AAC files but I found this free program called JHymn/ that will take the DRM off anything you might have bought off iTunes. It converts them into MP3 and claims to be lossless. I've used it and the resulting MP3s sound pretty good to me.

DBPowerAmp can convert AACs to other formats. Failing that, all you can do is go and re-rip everything again like the others have suggested.

cormie

RockBox should be supporting AAC fully some time... soon?? Perhaps soon, perhaps not... but it's supported already, just not fully, not in realtime, whatever that means.