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Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Microsoft: Hating AAC?

Insanely Great Mac:

The reader in question put some music together in Cubase and encoded it to AAC using iTunes (so far, so good).

Using Hotmail to send off the track to people brought the following response to the AAC attachment: namely, "A virus has been detected in the attached file."

Okay. Try MSN then: "This file has been blocked because it is potentially dangerous."

All right then. Decompress the AAC file and zip compress it on a PC: "Windows has blocked access to this file as it presents a potential danger."

MP3s don't present this problem. Is it an anti-iTMS, anti-iPod conspiracy?

Analysis: That got us wondering too. To be fair, Windows seems to block virtually everything that's not a .doc or .xls or .ppt file these days.

Daaahhh.... What? How's that? I guess this site's tagline should be "we put the 'insane' in 'insanely great mac.' That's crazy.

It's called paranoia.

Actually, what you're doing is called paranoia.

So what's the truth? Microsoft is not "blocking" AAC files. And taking one person's experience and touting that as proof so something is so ... so ... Leander Kahney. Come on guys, have some standards. Set them low if you want, but have some standards.

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