xhe-aac AKA USAC
I got this off of site but doesn’t work on MPC or VLC but works on my phone under Smart Audiobook Player, the native music player, and the generic audio and video player so I have no idea why it does this. The issue is the license for that codec. It’s not a free license so either you have to find a media player that has xhe-aac playability, build your own with the latest ffmpeg or funny enough your browser. You can play it on Firefox or Edge it’s clunky but it runs… Windows media player too,
Feel free to list other if works
File list
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Vol. 6.m4a (413.7 MiB)
From my recent experiments with USAC:
For LOSSY! conversion, "fre:ac", despite being old, supports converting these with the FDK-AAC Encoder, and can recode it into a single file M4B (or split by chapter).
Doesn't solve the discrepancy in volume, though (might have settings for it, but I haven't tried them), so audio levels might be lower than common, non xhe-aac versions unless leveled afterwards.
I haven't had much success with other encoding tools or ffmpeg scripts yet.
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