any car radios that support AAC ?

#1 Sat, 3 Jul 2004 - 22:03 MacNN

I was looking for a car radio, since most of my library is encoded in AAC, I need one that supports it, yet I couldn't find one.
does anyone know of a radio that supports AAC ?

thxport it ??

#2 Sat, 3 Jul 2004 - 22:20 MacNN

Not that I know of; however, I heard the new Alpine iPod headunit/controller will support AAC...

#3 Sat, 3 Jul 2004 - 22:22 MacNN

Of course it will, because the iPod will be doing the playing.

tooki

#4 Sat, 3 Jul 2004 - 22:54 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by Sarc:
I was looking for a car radio, since most of my library is encoded in AAC, I need one that supports it, yet I couldn't find one.
does anyone know of a radio that supports AAC ?

thxport it ??

ACC w/o DRM or Apple DRM ACC :?

If your question is if there are any radios that play ACC with DRM DIRECTLY without an iPod connected to it, then you are out of luck.
Apple to this point doesn't license their ACC w/ DRM to third parties.

Now ACC w/o DRM is another thing, but for that, I don't see enough demand.

-t

#5 Sat, 3 Jul 2004 - 23:56 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by turtle777:
Now ACC w/o DRM is another thing, but for that, I don't see enough demand.

-t

no ... I mean my own encoded AAC's.

#6 Sun, 4 Jul 2004 - 01:51 MacNN

XM radio is HE-AAC if you want to be technical about things

#7 Sun, 4 Jul 2004 - 08:43 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by qnxde:
XM radio is HE-AAC if you want to be technical about things

Really? Cool!

-Owl

#8 Sun, 4 Jul 2004 - 13:13 MacNN

I guess it will be some time before I can go and buy any retail radio with AAC support for my car ... damn you apple, make AAC the new standard.

#9 Sun, 4 Jul 2004 - 13:36 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by Sarc:
I guess it will be some time before I can go and buy any retail radio with AAC support for my car ... damn you apple, make AAC the new standard.

AAC is a standard, .m4a is Apple's own take on things.

#10 Sun, 4 Jul 2004 - 15:12 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by Sarc:
I guess it will be some time before I can go and buy any retail radio with AAC support for my car ... damn you apple, make AAC the new standard.

We all wish it was THAT easy for Apple to "make" standards.
Standards are made when the market / industrie embraces certain things and make it the prefered choice.\

As for ACC, from a technical perspective, it has all it needs.
But M$ with their $&*#^$% WMF is (albeit it's inferiority) still strong in numbers...

-t

#11 Sun, 4 Jul 2004 - 16:53 MacNN

Quote:

Originally posted by turtle777:
As for ACC, from a technical perspective, it has all it needs.

What's with your insistence on calling it ACC? It's AAC.

Quote:

But M$ with their $&*#^$% WMF is (albeit it's inferiority) still strong in numbers...

Actually, quality-wise WMF stuff is not too shabby. It's just unfortunate that it's pretty much tied to the Windows platform.

#12 Sun, 4 Jul 2004 - 21:40 MacNN

I guess in the future we will se AAC radios, since AAC is the default codec for iTunes (PC and Mac), and more PC users are using iTunes thanks to the store and the iPods ...