HE-AAC : how to turn an album into 22 MB of data

[andrew.46]

[...] which then gives me the prized HE-AACv2

Great news .

[andrew.46]

Opus encoding has just been added if you want to svn up and try it out...

[Yellow Pasque]

I can't put my finger on it, but there's something about AAC I don't like (in terms of audio quality). I prefer OGG/Mp3 for lossy and FLAC for lossless. Good info, nonetheless.

[andrew.46]

I ahve to admit as well that despite many, many experiments I almost always use oggenc with -q 6 ...

[shantiq]

it's all about the ear and what we pick up/prefer [sort of like your "sonic taste"] i do not like aac but i adore neroAacEnc especially in the low bitrates with HE-AACv2 .... totally different

ogg is cool too and mp3 if 320 but for lossy nero wins by a landslide for me and still shorten for lossless


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Andrew can you please explain in simple steps [for a dummy like me] what

Opus encoding has just been added if you want to svn up and try it out...

entails....

[andrew.46]

Andrew can you please explain in simple steps [for a dummy like me

The non-installation method again, using the existing svn download:

cd $HOME/abcde_build/abcde-read-only && \
svn up && \
./abcde

You will need the opus-tools package which is available in Quantal repository but not in Precise where you will have to build your own.

[shantiq]

corking


so on Precise you need all this

http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/o...g-1.3.0.tar.gz
http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/o...s-1.0.2.tar.gz
http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/o...s-0.1.6.tar.gz

Nice work!

cd $HOME/abcde_build/abcde-read-only && svn up && ./abcde
At revision 374.
Using AtomicParsley To Tag AAC Tracks.
Executing customizable pre-read function... done.
Getting CD track info... Querying the CD for audio tracks...
Grabbing entire CD - tracks: 01 02
Checking CDDB server status...
Querying the CDDB server...
Obtaining CDDB results...
Retrieving 1 CDDB match...done.
---- Louis Armstrong / Swing, You Cats ----
1: Mahogany Hall Stomp
2: Swing You Cats
3: Honey, Don't You Love Me Anymore?
4: Mississippi Basin
5: Laughin' Louis
6: Tomorrow Night
7: Dusky Stevedore
8: There's A Cabin In The Pines
9: Mighty River
10: Sweet Sue, Just You
11: I Wonder Who
12: St. Louis Blues
13: Don't Play Me Cheap
14: I'm In The Mood For Love
15: You Are My Lucky Star
16: La Curaracha
17: Got A Bran' New Suit
18: I've Got My Fingers Crossed
19: Old Man Mose
20: I'm Shooting High

Edit selected CDDB data? [y/n] (n): n
Is the CD multi-artist [y/N]? n
Creating playlist...
Grabbing track 01: Mahogany Hall Stomp...
cdparanoia III release 10.2 (September 11, 2008)

Ripping from sector 0 (track 1 [0:00.00])
to sector 11825 (track 1 [2:37.50])

outputting to /home/shantiq/abcde_build/abcde-read-only/abcde.320dc214/track01.wav

(== PROGRESS == [ | 011825 00 ] == :^D * ==)

Done..................................


Grabbing track 02: Swing You Cats...
cdparanoia III release 10.2 (September 11, 2008)

Encoding track 01 of 20: Mahogany Hall Stomp...
Ripping from sector 11826 (track 2 [0:00.00])
to sector 23821 (track 2 [2:39.70])

outputting to /home/shantiq/abcde_build/abcde-read-only/abcde.320dc214/track02.wav

(== PROGRESS == [ > | 015323 00 ] == o ==) Tagging track 01 of 20: Mahogany Hall Stomp...
(== PROGRESS == [ | 023821 00 ] == :^D * ==)

Done.



Finished.
shantiq@shantiq-00000000000000000000000:~/abcde_build/abcde-read-only$

[andrew.46]

Do you need to compile libogg as well? I confess I only have quantal vms at the moment so I cannot test this out

[shantiq]

yes libogg 1.3 or opus does not install

[Merrattic]

Shantiq, can you do a recap of what is needed for the basics on this, e.g. what to install, what to compile to get HE-AAC working? Don't think I need all the bells and whistles you and Andrew46 have moved onto.....