[quote="only1miller"]I agree with the folks asking for m4a/aac support. Also- as a warning to those transcoding their music from aac to mp3- know that transcoding from one lossy format to another only ruins the fidelity of the music. Changing your music to fit MediaMonkey is NOT a good idea. I love MediaMonkey and would love to use it exclusively, but I am of the belief that .m4a coding really does provide a superior sound at the same bitrate than .mp3. It wouldn't be an issue, but when fitting a ton of music on an iPod, you need every advantage you can get.

Once MediaMonkey finally implements built-in aac support, I'll probably walk away from Helium (the music manager I use now) for good.[/quote]

I've been using MM for a couple years now, and have always been impress with the Awesome range of abilities of MM. In my personal opinion (and we all know the old saying...), MM is the most awesome audio software for the music lover, serious or just enjoyer. I abolutely agree with only1miller when he says trancoding lossy formats will destroy the music quality. I am agreeing and also begging for .m4a support in MM due to the fact that MM has always been my favorite option for working with my music, and not just a simple plug-in. I wish to have the same abilities with .m4a files as I do with .mp3. I back only1miller in his belief the .m4a file has a superior quality sound than .mp3. And the reason for my insistance of .m4a support is: I connected my primary desktop to my home theater system and love the sound of my mp3s converted to dual channel over a 5.1 surround sound system. I can only dream of the pleasure it would be to listen to my same CD library converted to .m4a, encoded to dual channel, over the same system. Once that library is tag properly, played thru the new iTunes, with its album art visualalation, ya can tell Microsoft to take Windows Media Center on a flying leap off anything with Extreme Elevation, because they just wasted too much money on, not just one OS, but 2 (Media Center 2005) & the New Vista...

Media Player 11 won't even save them....

[quote]It has the ability to transcode on the fly as you load music to your ipod (from one format (FLAC) to another (AAC) ) and you specify the bitrate, etc.[/quote]MediaMonkey can do this too...

Yeah, that sounds like a neat idea. I don't know of anything that does this currently, but you might want to check out Anapod Explorer by Red Chair software. It has the ability to transcode on the fly as you load music to your ipod (from one format (FLAC) to another (AAC) ) and you specify the bitrate, etc.

And no, I don't work for the company :)

I agree. I'm only using iTunes at the moment to manage my iPod. If I could use MediaMonkey instead, I would.

I'd still keep two libraries - one in AAC format for the iPod, one in FLAC for home use & as a backup - but I'd manage both via MediaMonkey.

What would be [b]really[/b] cool is "shadow-library" functionality in MediaMonkey, the ability for MediaMonkey to maintain - and intelligently update - two separate libraries, one consisting of uncompressed or losslessly compressed files, and another of lossy compressed copies for portable use.

I agree with the folks asking for m4a/aac support. Also- as a warning to those transcoding their music from aac to mp3- know that transcoding from one lossy format to another only ruins the fidelity of the music. Changing your music to fit MediaMonkey is NOT a good idea. I love MediaMonkey and would love to use it exclusively, but I am of the belief that .m4a coding really does provide a superior sound at the same bitrate than .mp3. It wouldn't be an issue, but when fitting a ton of music on an iPod, you need every advantage you can get.

Once MediaMonkey finally implements built-in aac support, I'll probably walk away from Helium (the music manager I use now) for good.

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding]AAC[/url] is as open as mp3 is. The problem is that Apple uses a closed DRM variant of it for the iTunes store.

MediaMonkey should support this and some other formats natively in my opinion.

Don't know why you people went with a closed format then... ;)

I keep my library in FLAC and transcode to mp3 for lossy usage. FLAC = wide open so you should NEVER have any support issues with it...

Totally agree. Just upgraded to Gold and reindexed all my stuff after adding the AAC plugins currently available. No tag support is really hurting my newbie MediaMonkey experience. :)

yes, AAC support would be great feature :)

Has been discussed at length lately. No response from the developers on this yet.

Well all plugins should be thoughabout. Can you forum people get teh designers to create one asap. I have just started converting them and 1 dvd takes 2.5 days to convert and i have:
3gig of ram
3.00 ghZ processor
2X 250 gig hardrives

I agree.

Proper tag support for m4a, mp4, and alac really needs to be implemented as well. I don't care if its a plugin or something, the way it is now is rather useless.

Please can you create a aac plugin that works with itunes. This would be great because i have 120 gig of songs on dvd's but they are in acc format with itunes and this means that i would have to convert them all which would take forever!!

Please take this post seriously!!
Thankyou