Nero's free MPEG-4 AAC/AAC+ encoder instructions

8th September 2006

I've mentioned the AAC/AAC+ audio codec on this website many times, and Nero has released a free command line MPEG-4 AAC/AAC+ encoder, which performs very well, so I've written a page with simple 'quick start' instructions for how to use Nero's encoder so that you can test its performance for yourselves.

A comparison between DAB at 128 kbps (MP2) and AAC+ showed that AAC+ at bit rates as low as 32 kbps sounded better than the DAB recording of the same track, which is a sad indictment on the audio quality on DAB in the UK, where 98% of all stereo stations use a bit rate of 128 kbps.