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Supported Players
Supported Servers
Features
General
- FREE players include RealNetworks RealPlayer, Apple QuickTime, and Nullsoft Winamp, among others.
- Most efficient audio codec currently available.
- Most natural sounding lossy audio codec currently available.
- Provides higher audio quality for a given bitrate than other audio codecs.
- Fewer audible coding artifacts for a given bitrate than other audio codecs.
- Dramatically superior to MP3 and WMA.
- AAC is the choice for the number 1 music download service: Apple iTunes.
- aacPlus is the choice for standards-based 3GPP mobile streaming.
- Minimizes network bandwidth and storage costs.
- When used with Optimod-PC, Opticodec-PC provides true entertainment-grade audio quality.
- High quality, bandwidth efficient podcasting.
Professional Version
- Microsoft Windows XP/2003 Server Application.
- Graphical user interface uses standard Microsoft Windows menu structures for ease of learning and use.
- Console user interface supports batch file execution to enable easy launching and automation.
- Supports any high quality Microsoft Windows Sound Card. May be used with Optimod-PC professional signal processing sound card.
- Up to 128kbps bitrate using aacPlus codec.
- Up to 320kbps bitrate using AAC codec.
- Uses linear PCM .wav file input or direct capture from sound device for the best quality.
- Creates MPEG-2/MPEG-4 compliant AAC/aacPlus files.
- Creates MPEG-4 hinted AAC/aacPlus files for streaming servers.
- Apple iTunes/iPod AAC/aacPlus portable player compatible.
- Winamp 5.09 compatible.
- File asset tagging.