They update the tools for any changes, so you can hear how they might affect your content (that’s not happened yet for AAC, so presently that’s irrelevant, but nothing Apple lives forever so it’s good to know). It just happens.Īs to previewing and QC, the MfiT toolbox contains the encoder that Apple uses (and for AU DAWs, a real-time codec for A/B’ing sadly no help to WL users, and I really can’t blame apple for not supporting VST here), so you can always hear, review and check what’s going to happen. They don’t need to re-ingest anything, or contact the artist, or labels.
As to self-converting, that’s not as good as the current MfiT workflow, wrt quality: by accepting and retaining full resolution files, Apple can strike higher quality transcoded delivery files as-needed, based on any changes to spec. ITunes ingests everything as WAV, but Mastered for iTunes ingest is 24 bits. takes a lot of time for something that could be so simple. I don’t mind manually re-linking to the correct sample rate files, but redoing all the markers, effects and clips gains etc. My main hope for 8.5 is a way to easily convert a montage to a different sample rate without all the markers shifting. I have Sonnox Pro Codec to test if overs will occur, and looking forward to trying the new Encoder Checker. I wish you could submit AAC directly for iTunes sales because then you wouldn’t have to worry about possible overs when WAV files are converted to AAC. Clients seem to have a hard time comprehending that you need to start with high quality WAV files that get converted to AAC and tagged with data even though I try to be clear about this when sending them masters for approval. This is always confusing for clients that think they need to upload mp3s for iTunes sales since iTunes sells mp3/AAC files. I haven’t seen any services that accept or request AAC files directly. HE-AAC, HE-AAC v2, HD-AAC and 3GPP) for upload to the iTunes platform”.Īre there any iTunes aggregators that accept AAC files directly for iTunes distribution? It seems that in the US, all aggregators only accept 16-bit WAV, and hopefully 24-bit WAV soon.
The info on website says “This allows music or spoken word content to be rendered directly to the AAC format (e.g. One thing that I am wondering about is the AAC encoder feature. I’m looking forward to 8.5, it seems that it will be a paid update.