AAC Filters In Adobe 3.0.1

Advanced Audio Coding audio can be contained within many file extensions, most popular are:
.aac
.mp4
.m4a
.m4b
There are two filters (.flt) available for Au301 to save .wav files to AAC that I am aware of.

1- cool_faac-1.28 Filter from rarewares.org
This CoolEdit Pro/Adobe Audition plugin does importing and exporting of AAC/MP4 streams, using FAAC 1.28 and FAAD2 2.7. Unzip the file to CoolEdit/Audition's folder.
https://www.rarewares.org/aac-encoders.php#audition-aac

2- Ahead neromp4.flt
This filter is notorious because it will not work without Nero burning software installed on the same machine. The encoding process is called on DLL files in the Nero Program.
This can be remedied by installing a few files and writing to the registry.
Youll need Nero installed to get this filter to even open.
Or
You can just install the necessary files and reg entries:

1) Create Ahead Folder here:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead

2) Create these two sub directories:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\AudioPlugins
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\Lib

3) In C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\AudioPlugins Place:
Aac.dll
aacenc32.dll

4) In C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\Lib Place:
AdvrCntr.dll
apreg.dll
DriveLocker.dll
NeroCBUI.dll
NeroIPP.dll

5) In registry create Key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ahead\Shared
Create WORDs:
"NeroDriverComponent"=dword:000003e8
"NeroCheckComponent"=dword:000003e8
"CoverDesignerComponent"=dword:000003e8
"ResourceCounter"=dword:00000000
Create String Values:
"AudioPlugIn"="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Ahead\\AudioPlugins"
"DriveLocker"="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Ahead\\Lib\\DriveLocker.dll"
"Lib"="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Ahead\\Lib"

6) Place neromp4.flt in Adobe Audition 3.0 program Folder.

Note: The Nero filter only encodes. The FAAC filter will encode and decode and will be called when you open an AAC file with Au301. The Nero encoder might be a preferable encoder vs. FAAC. There are grayed out sections in the Nero filter (Fit to size and Calculate) which I cant get to work on a machine with Nero installed.
Free online AAC bitrate calculators are all over the Internet.
I attach the old Telos Systems bitrate calculator brcalc_v1.3.zip
and more concise instructions in three attahed zips (You'll need all three):
Au301_Filter_01.zip
Au301_Filter_02.zip
Au301_Filter_03.zip

If your Au30I preference is to open all .wav files in 32-bit float, you should change this when opening your 16-48/16-44.1 file before encoding.