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MP3 Insider: Will your next MP3 player be a cell phone?
Today, your phone most likely plays just ring tones, but the one you buy next year could end up replacing your MP3 player. Sound a bit too far-out? Read this week's column, then decide for yourself.
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AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) - Also called MPEG-2 AAC or MPEG-2 NBC, this audio codec is the logical continuation of the MP3 codec created by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Due to advances in the technology, AAC files encoded at a 96 kbps bit rate sound slightly better than MP3s encoded at 128 kbps. For more information, see here.
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