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Originally Posted by manolito
Interesting...
What are these "precedence" decisions based upon? Audible encoding quality?
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Inspired by listening tests (e.g. see
here)
As you say, most people seem to agree that QAAC (Apple AAC) is superior these days. And Nero AAC consistently takes the last place, when compared to QAAC and FhG AAC.
Not quite sure about "FhG" flavors (FDKAAC vs. FhgAacEnc). But considering that FDKAAC is available as OpenSource, whereas the FhgAacEnc DLL needs to be "exfiltrated" from old versions of Winamp and hasn't been updated in years...
Anyhow, the precedence is
not all that important! It's only needed for conflict resolution, if
more than one encoder happens to be present.
LameXP will always show what encoder it is using, on the "Compression" tab. You can easily correct things, if it is
not using the intended AAC encoder. Just install whatever AAC encoder you wish to use, and that's it
