M4A / AAC changes

[Nick Ludlam]

On 31 Mar 2011, at 13:08, dinkypumpkin wrote:

> On 31 Mar 2011, at 13:01, Shevek wrote:
> 
>> All,
>> 
>> Quick question on how to handle the AAC / M4A issue
>> 
>> Should M4A be the default container for AAC audio or should it default
>> to raw AAC and only use M4A if a new --m4a switch is set?
> 
> +1 for M4A as the default.  Although they work in VLC, mplayer, etc., the AAC files are useless with iTunes and associated products, so of course I'm speaking purely out of self-interest.  Does anyone have a case where AAC is actually more useful than M4A?

For my github fork, I'm using M4A as the default container for all audio, since it uses nearly the exact same tagging procedure as the videos do, and m4a is a better supported container format, IMO.

The m4a switch I was testing a few weeks back was purely for me to overlay new functionality in a non-disruptive way, and once I'd figured out how to alter the rest of the code to make m4a the default suffix, I took that switch back out.

Nick