AAC or MP3-Which Sounds Better

I can get AAC and MP3 to sound identical (or at least to me anyway) when I set it right, but when I do, the AAC is smaller, so I'm using that.

about equally good (to my ear) but ACC has smaller size, so that's the advantage ;)

AAC will produce the same sound quality in a smaller file, its not a question of which sounds better

Originally posted by jcv exc
I didn't vote because I'm new to this. I have a question though:

are you comparing at the same bitrate? I'm importing my music from my CD's right now at AAC 128. How would you say that would compare to 128 MP3 or 192 MP3? I have a decent speaker system on my PC and the AAC 128 souded (to me) exactly like the 192 MP3.

that's exactly what's pple are arguing about...

128 AAC is arguably = 192 mp3 .....w/ smaller file size...

but then again some pple can't really tell the different between 128 and 192 mp3... so u can't really get one answer of which one is better (and same b-rate, or different) from different ears that pple have

IM(ears')HO

MP3@192 is the way to go. Shock, horror -- but AAC@192 actually sounds worse to me.

Perhaps this isn't relevant, but I read that iTunes' AAC encoder is inferior compared to the fully licensed version in QuickTime. In any case, I have a bias twds FhG and LAME. Still, Apple could've done a lot worse by, say, adopting Xing. That would be the one true horror...

definitely AAC. No doubt!