Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/25939068
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Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is patented and requires a license for legal use.
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I mean so is MP3. If you really want to be a non-proprietary purist you need to rely on Opus for a lossy audio compression, which is not as widely supported in music players as MP3 or AAC.
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