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It is not "Apple's AAC". Apple did not have any part in the development of AAC. It was actually developed by Fraunhofer as a successor to their MP3 encoding.
👤lorrit🕑7y🔼0🗨️0
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IIRC, MP3 was based on the audio component of the first "MPEG" standard (the one used for Video CDs) rather than MPEG2 (the one used for DVDs, amongst other things), which would make it "MPEG Layer III".
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According to wikipedia, the compression algorithm was originally called MUSICAM.
👤auxym🕑7y🔼0🗨️0
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We also saw open standards emerge, like Ogg Vorbis and FLAC (although neither were widely adopted by hardware vendors compared to Apple's AAC/ALAC)