C8 on 07 April 2009
| thekitchensink said: Extra exclamation points and capital letters, as it turns out, don't strengthen your point. They chose the AAC format because it's easier to play around with. Remember, you can change up the sounds, slow the music down, speed it up, add effects to it, etc. |
This has absolutely nothing to do with AAC vs. MP3. You can do those things with any format, it happens after the decode. WMP, as just one simple example that almost everyone has, can play with the speed of and add effects to any audio format it will play (including, but not limited to, MP3 and WMA)
AAC is a more modern codec, comprable in terms of "quality at a given rate" to WMA. MP3 files, while universally playable, are not as high quality at lower bitrates as WMA/AAC is at the same rate. This is still no excuse - if there's one format that "every" media player plays it is MP3 - so it's perfectly reasonable to expect this to work.
