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Thank you MrK for your valuable input.
@whay – Not sure what “Sound vibrates” means. Can you describe it further, or provide a sound grab?I am informed that the email went into spam (possibly because it’s hotmail), and that it has now been retrieved and acted upon.
Enjoy BA1!
Typically, licences are issued within 24 hours of receipt of the funds and the system summary information, so this is certainly well outside the usual parameters.
I note from your profile that you have only provided the minimum information. I also note that you have a hotmail email account which often gets filtered out by default. These things MAY have an effect on the outcome, but I have raised the issue with John directly and will let you know his response.
Great work, Mr K.
Perhaps some of the parameters stretch the envelope? For instance, what are the min/max options for “quality”? In the light of Leif’s comment about the quality comparison, perhaps he found it wasn’t possible to get the same from the FAAC model.It’s great that you got an output file, albeit empty. That suggests that it must be somewhere near the end of the process it is failing.
This is a direct quote from an email response to me on the subject from the great man himself – from the 23 March, 2022.
“It’s also possible that a command line (stdin/stdout) version of FAAC could work, but last I checked it didn’t produce nearly the same quality as Coding Technology’s encoder which is that codec pack.”
I agree, we need at least one other AAC alternative, preferably one that is actively being developed, so I would welcome any feedback if you are able to open some dialogue.
Hmm. That’s weird, because I tested it (downloaded the zip file) after I uploaded it. Maybe because I’m in Australia? Anyway, DrSandi was also able to download, so maybe it’s something in the browser which needs to be relaxed?
Great to hear it is all finally resolved. The process is supposed to be seamless, but, obviously, it wasn’t in your case.
We are here to help where we can.
Woah! Now I’m confused.
Are you streaming or FTA broadcasting? If you are using “one of those Chinese transmitters” it suggests that you are transmitting (FTA), but you mention friends “streaming”. Maybe doing both? Are you using pre-emphasis on the FTA?Just to finalise the original issue, did you get your licencing issue sorted, or are you still waiting? John has responded to me, saying that he will happily generate your licence as soon as he has (at least) the MAC address of your PC (to which your licence is bound).
BTW, this is a link that John provided after I gave you the link to the AAC encoder I use. I’m not sure if it is the same, or a later version. I will endeavour to establish that, but, if you want to try it, this is the link https://www.dropbox.com/s/lfvdrs944cjs7y6/Audio_Encoder_Codecs_setup.exe?dl=0.
I also contacted John, and he told me that he had requested some information from you about your system under “System License Summary” back on the 13th of March.
I assume that that was when you were still wrestling with the AAC problem, so, if that is resolved, please provide him the information generated under that tab, and you should be good to go.Are you saying that you have purchased BA1 and not yet received your licence?
Keith is sadly no longer with us, but John has picked up the ball, and usually gets the paperwork done within 24 hours. Try this email address john@claessonedwards.comThe suspense is killing me.
Did it work for you? This is for the benefit of others, if it was successful.I am not sure what the legal implications are, but I believe that Leif would have secured the appropriate rights at the time, so I am prepared to risk it.
I have uploaded a zipped copy of the codec that I installed way back in 2018 when I started testing BA1. It is obviously not the latest and greatest, but I know that it works.
Here’s the link to a friend’s private website. Copy and paste it to your browser. http://www.jrcomputing.com.au/JR_Stuff/AAC_Codec_Package.zip
Thank you, Mr Klorox, for your research.😊
And thank you, timmywa for reminding me about the download package.👍
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This is from the BA1 website.
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Streaming
Applicable to HD cores.Can stream to Icecast, Shoutcast and Shoutcast 2 servers, and encodes up to four streams from one processor.
The following codecs are included:
Ogg Vorbis
Opus
FLAC
MPEG-1 Layer 2 (twolame)
Industry standard MP3, AAC and HE-AAC codecs can be used, but are not included.Any stdin/stdout command line encoder can be used.
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If you just search “HE-AAC Codecs” there’s a link to the package in Soundforge. https://sourceforge.net/projects/faac/
I don’t stream, but I have a licence to do so. Let me play around with options and I will get back to you.
If anyone else already has experience with this, please chime in.
