Releases: nu774/qaac
v2.52
- Increased MSVC runtime limit of open files to 2048.
qaac tries to open all the input files before encoding. Previously, qaac couldn't open more than 512 files at once due to CRT limit. Now limit is increased to 2048. - Show meaningful error message on CRT level file open error.
v2.51
- Always write zero into avgBitrate field in esds decConfigDescriptor to be spec compliant. Was writing actual average bitrate before (this was automatically done by libmp4v2). The spec says that in case of VBR, is should be zero.
- Write iTunes compatible "Encoding Params" tag.
Details on Encoding Params tag.
In this (binary) tag, encoding mode(CBR/ABR/CVBR/TVBR), bitrate, and the codec version is written. As far as I know, this tag is only used by iTunes to show bitrate and show if it is VBR or not.
For the sake of compatibility with iTunes, qaac writes nominal (target) bitrate into this tag, and iTunes will show this value when "Encoding Params" tag is present. Therefore, now the result of -v 256 encoding will always look like "256kbps (VBR)" in iTunes.
On the other hands, other (spec compliant) tools will show actual bitrate.
v2.50
Better support for embedded cuesheet.
When cuesheet is embedded in an input file, qaac was encoding it into an single output file with chapters.
From this version, qaac now splits into multiple tracks by default (same as the case of external cuesheet). If you still want single output, use --concat.
v2.49
v2.48
v2.47
Large file (>= 4GB) output is now supported. Very long duration (beyond 32bit limit) is also supported, but the latter is not compatible with QuickTime 7.
On very large files, container optimization can take several minutes. You can disable it by --no-optimize.