Archive for: AAC

The new poster child for stupid: The entertainment industry and the CMX file format.

  • August 11, 2009 5:56 am

incompetence

As if the entertainment industry, more recently the video and music industry, couldn’t be more behind the times, completely lost of their true demographic, and utterly clueless and incompetent when it comes to anything digital, they all come out swinging to surprise us over and over. The latest and most ridiculous attempt at world dominance comes in the form of CMX, a new file format that various sectors of the entertainment industry are putting their weight behind. Apparently this decision took several years of brainstorming between many high up exec’s to get to this point. Have they have forgotten about MP3, you know, the universal standard even if it is a bit dated? Even still, there are plenty of others such as AAC, Ogg, and FLAC just to name a few. So why bring out another new file format in a world that is literally drowning in them?

Wow…MacDailyNews rips PC World’s Rick Broida a new one!

  • January 7, 2009 9:40 pm

sparethekittensfromstupidpeople

In what is probably the most hilarious rebuttal to a post, MacDailyNews lays into PC World’s Rick Broida who claims AAC is proprietary.  I’m a nice guy and understand people make mistakes…but that is just plain stupid.  MacDailyNews does an amazing job listing a long laundry list of devices and services that use mp3.  He goes one step further and lists another laundry list of why AAC was developed in the first place…to replace mp3 and its short comings.  At the end of the article, what little credibility Rick had left was shot to hell when he suggested transcoding from AAC to Mp3, because transcoding will magically make you music sound better.  I think not Rick.  I am reposting the article from MacDailyNews because again, it is awesome to say the least.  Click through to see the full article in all of its glory.  Sit down because you will get a good laugh!