Amazon announced today it will see DRM free music in MP3 format, from EMI of course. Would you guys buy in MP3 format when you could buy music in AAC format? Consider this quote from MacDailyNews:
"Apple's iTunes store uses the AAC format which provides audio encoding that compresses much more efficiently than older formats like MP3. AAC offers many advantages over MP3 including improved compression provides higher-quality results with smaller file sizes, support for multichannel audio, providing up to 48 full frequency channels, higher resolution audio, yielding sampling rates up to 96 kHz, and improved decoding efficiency, requiring less processing power for decoding."
2 comments:
They must be using MP3 because other than the iPod the other players do not play AAC format. At least as far as I know.
There are some things like cell phones that are starting to become AAC compatible. But, it's still out there a ways to have it be common place. I think that perhaps the advantage with the Amazon store is that any music player practically will play MP3 these days. But, still, it's quite a mild advantage.
-Le
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