You can put me down as someone interested in the AAC format when it comes out. I'm firmly entrenched in 192kbps and above for MP3 as it is, but I'd love to save disk space with a better encoder.

But perhaps it would be better still to wait for the MPEG-4 audio format standard to settle down, and go with that. My understanding is that it is AAC + a couple of new twists, and that in theory MPEG-4 decoders will be able to play MPEG-2 AAC files.

Michael
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