Portable Media Players with HE-AAC v2 support ?

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  • November 15, 2011 at 5:03 am #1231
    michi95
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    I want to buy a new portable music player.
    Some support AAC.
    But I wonder if this means that these players support AAC (LC, Main Profile) only and would play HE-AAC v2 with reduced quality (in the same way most portable mp3 players play mp3pro files).

    So, I need a portable player with full HE-AAC v2 support !
    I do not use it (NeroAAC codec -> low bitrate HE-AAC v2) for music, but for audio books, radio plays and reports.

    Do you know a portable player with full HE-AAC v2 support ?
    Sony NWZ-S764 ?

    November 15, 2011 at 9:22 pm #12816
    JesseG
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    These little guys are probably your best and cheapest bet…
    http://www.buy.com/prod/sandisk-2gb-san … 33817.html
    You can find even the 8GB ones for that price and cheaper sometimes, when a special deal comes along. (on a site like w00t or some such)

    The killer app… is that you can change the stock firmware to: http://www.rockbox.org/

    8)

    So really, any small cheap player with a decent CPU that supports RockBox… is what I would recommend.

    November 16, 2011 at 5:56 am #12817
    michi95
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    Thank You !

    http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SoundCodecs
    Reading this info rockbox supports HE-AAC (v1 !) using libfaad (from FAAD2).
    Ok, and FAAD2 decoder supports HE-AACv2 Profile (AAC LC+SBR+PS):
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAAC

    So,, in theory it works.

    Can any Rockbox user here in this forum confirm the full HE-AACv2 support ?

    OT:
    Jesse, have you tried the free FhG V4 CLI encoder yet ?
    @ CBR128kbps I prefer it (for my ears it is even better than LAME 3.93.1).

    November 17, 2011 at 6:46 am #12818
    JesseG
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    [quote author=”michi95″]Reading this info rockbox supports HE-AAC (v1 !) [snip][/quote]
    PS profile doesn’t require any decoder changes at all, so if the decoder supports HE profile, you’re good.

    [quote author=”michi95″]Jesse, have you tried the free FhG V4 CLI encoder yet ?
    @ CBR128kbps I prefer it (for my ears it is even better than LAME 3.93.1).[/quote]
    I haven’t tried it. Now that I’m not the Chief Engineer of the #1 net-radio in the world (for 2.5 years straight) I don’t spend nearly as much time doing that kind of thing. 😉

    I would be interested in stats, if anyone does some blind ABXing.

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