Current votes:
Multiformat - Zarggg, Kwanbis, dsimcha, Alexxander, romor, Kef, Kohlrabi (7)
AAC - Kennedyb4, /mnt, muaddib, Steve Forte Rio, IgorC, Pri3st, johnb, Polar, LithosZA, richard123, lvqcl - (11)
Multiformat / but realizes that it will be difficult to choose best encoder per format - Corone (1)
Codecs:
MP3 LAME – Kwanbis, Nick.C, LithosZA, IgorC, Alexxander, richard123, /mnt, romor, Kohlrabi, Kef (10)
Vorbis AoTuV – Kwanbis, LithosZA, IgorC, Steve Forte Rio, Alexxander (opt.), /mnt, romor, Kohlrabi, Kef (8 +1 optionally)
CELT – Steve Forte Rio, LithosZA, IgorC, /mnt, Kohlrabi, Kef (6)
WMA/WMA Pro – Kwanbis, Steve Forte Rio, romor (3)
Musepack (MPC) - /mnt, Kohlrabi, (-)Antonski (2 + 1 against)
Nero – Zarggg, Steve Forte Rio, IgorC, Polar, Alexxander, richard123, /mnt, Muaddib, Kohlrabi (9)
QuickTime AAC (true VBR) – Kennedyb4, Steve Forte Rio, Alexxander, richard123, /mnt, Muaddib (half vote), Zarrg (0.5), Polar (0.5), Kohlrabi (0.5) (7)
iTunes AAC (constrained VBR) - Kennedyb4, Zarggg (half vote), Kwanbis, IgorC, Polar (0.5), Alexxander (optinally), Muaddib (0.5), Kohlrabi (0.5) (5.0 + 1 optionally )
FhG AAC - /mnt, Steve Forte Rio, IgorC, richard123, Muaddib (5)
Winamp’s CT AAC – Steve Forte Rio, IgorC, /mnt, Muaddib (4)
FAAC – Kohlrabi, /mnt, menno (2 + 1 developer)
Divx AAC - /mnt (1)
Old encoder with higher bitrate – Notat, Corone, Polar, (-)lvqcl (3 + 1 against )
To use ffmpeg AAC as low anchor - /mnt, IgorC (2)
To include only one Apple encoder in AAC test (CVBR or TVBR) – Benski, Muaddib, Steve Forte Rio (2 + 1 developer)
