[mmurray]

Does anyone know if AAC support is available for Palms or coming to Palms ? I assume from what I can find on the web that RealOne Mobile Player doesn't support it.

Thanks - Michael

[mmurray]

I guess this is a partial answer to my own question from the AeroPlayer web site:

Q:Are there any plans for AeroPlayer to support the AAC format used by the new Apple Music Store?

A: Not for now. As with other proprietary formats, MPEG-4 AAC is heavily patented, in this case by Dolby. Licensing fees are prohibitively high. Given that the Vorbis codec is in the same class as AAC technologically and that it's completely unburdened by patents, AAC support is on hold until we see evidence of higher demand.

[maxintosh]

Unfortunately, licensing fees are exhoberant on AAC.

[slugslugslug]

Originally posted by mmurray:
Does anyone know if AAC support is available for Palms or coming to Palms ? I assume from what I can find on the web that RealOne Mobile Player doesn't support it.

Thanks - Michael

Well, the newest RealPlayer for Palm is s'posed to play songs DL'd from the RealOne Music Store. That store sells songs in AAC. So the new RealPlayer for Palm ought to play some form of AAC, I would assume at least unencrypted and Helix-encrypted. And Real's new desktop software actually plays FairPlay-encrypted AACs, so it's possible their Palm version does, too.

The problem: you can only officially get the new Palm RealPlayer via Windows. That is, you have to get the newest Windows RealPlayer and sign up for a music store account and then use that login info to download the Palm player.

Which then comes as an installer for Windows.

I'm going to see if I can get this installer onto a windows machine and get a copy of the Palm files it puts in the HotSync queue and then install them onto my T3 from my Mac.

Then I'll try to just send AACs to the SD card via the Mac and see if they work in the RealPlayer.

I'll keep y'all posted.

[biscool]

Well, the newest RealPlayer for Palm is s'posed to play songs DL'd from the RealOne Music Store. That store sells songs in AAC. So the new RealPlayer for Palm ought to play some form of AAC, I would assume at least unencrypted and Helix-encrypted. And Real's new desktop software actually plays FairPlay-encrypted AACs, so it's possible their Palm version does, too.

The problem: you can only officially get the new Palm RealPlayer via Windows. That is, you have to get the newest Windows RealPlayer and sign up for a music store account and then use that login info to download the Palm player.

Which then comes as an installer for Windows.

I'm going to see if I can get this installer onto a windows machine and get a copy of the Palm files it puts in the HotSync queue and then install them onto my T3 from my Mac.

Then I'll try to just send AACs to the SD card via the Mac and see if they work in the RealPlayer.

I'll keep y'all posted.

I wouldn't waste your time, it's not going to work.

[slugslugslug]

Good call on your part. Songs have to be transferred from the Windows RealOne Player app, not via HotSync. Though FWIW that app can apparently play iTunes-encoded and -purchased AAC songs, so perhaps it could transfer them, too. But I'd have to mess around with using VPC and switching access to the HotSync cradle btw the emulator and the mac. Doesn't sound very worthwile..

ugh.

Originally posted by biscool:
I wouldn't waste your time, it's not going to work.