Rearchiving 2M hours of digital radio, a comprehensive process

Re:Rearchiving 2M hours of digital radio, a comprehensive pr... by madars on Friday August 30, 2024 @04:12PM (#41404021)

Apple's great AAC encoder was also available as part of iTunes for Windows. One can extract the DDLs from the installer and use them with qaac to encode AACs. Apparently even works in Wine: https://www.andrews-corner.org/qaac.html ! OBS also picks up CoreAudio DLLs so streamers install old iTunes versions to improve audio quality on their streams.

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Re:Rearchiving 2M hours of digital radio, a comprehensive pr... by imglorp on Friday August 30, 2024 @06:11PM (#41404969)

For archival purposes though, a proprietary codec on a proprietary app in a proprietary OS that could be gone in the next release is not a panacea. This demands a format that will be playable at highest quality in 50 or 100 years. Not an easy problem!

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