I noticed that Freac's AppleAAC encoding settings don't offer this parameter change.
It has a clear definition in Apple's official AFConvert:
-q --quality <0-127>
Speed/quality trade-off. Internally rounded to a value of either 32, 64, or 96.
{ -q | --quality } codec_quality
codec_quality: 0-127
https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Apple_AAChttps://ss64.com/osx/afconvert.html
This makes me uneasy. Can you tell me about Freac's default value for this parameter?
I also noticed that Freac's ExHale offers additional parameter option boxes. This is also missing from the AppleAAC encoder configuration. You should give all encoders the power to this additional parameter as much as possible. This takes freedom to a new level.
Freac also doesn't offer Apple Ture VBR TVBR. TVBR can omit spurious bitrates, if the original file has a lower bitrate, using TVBR can avoid encoding it at a higher bitrate. That's why it's True. In this case CVBR will inflate a lot of useless bitrate. You can easily add this TVBR option.
AppleHEv1 and v2 seem to be locked at 48 and 80kbps and cannot use higher bitrates. I know higher bitrates don't make sense for HE. But some other encoders do not limit this bitrate, allowing 320kbps in AppleHEv2. You should remove this hard limit. When the user scrolls to a higher bitrate, a warning is displayed, warning the user that there is no benefit beyond this bitrate.
I've looked at a lot of audio transcoders, and your Freac is without a doubt the best. And it supports macOS and Linux.
I noticed that Freac's AppleAAC encoding settings don't offer this parameter change. It has a clear definition in Apple's official AFConvert: -q --quality <0-127> Speed/quality trade-off. Internally rounded to a value of either 32, 64, or 96. { -q | --quality } codec_quality codec_quality: 0-127 https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Apple_AAC https://ss64.com/osx/afconvert.html This makes me uneasy. Can you tell me about Freac's default value for this parameter? I also noticed that Freac's ExHale offers additional parameter option boxes. This is also missing from the AppleAAC encoder configuration. You should give all encoders the power to this additional parameter as much as possible. This takes freedom to a new level. Freac also doesn't offer Apple Ture VBR TVBR. TVBR can omit spurious bitrates, if the original file has a lower bitrate, using TVBR can avoid encoding it at a higher bitrate. That's why it's True. In this case CVBR will inflate a lot of useless bitrate. You can easily add this TVBR option. AppleHEv1 and v2 seem to be locked at 48 and 80kbps and cannot use higher bitrates. I know higher bitrates don't make sense for HE. But some other encoders do not limit this bitrate, allowing 320kbps in AppleHEv2. You should remove this hard limit. When the user scrolls to a higher bitrate, a warning is displayed, warning the user that there is no benefit beyond this bitrate. I've looked at a lot of audio transcoders, and your Freac is without a doubt the best. And it supports macOS and Linux.