You will need to have QuickTime installed on the PC in order to play
AAC files, as SlimServer uses the AAC decoder built into QuickTime.
The easiest way to install QuickTime is to install iTunes, but I
think that there may be a separate stand-alone installer available too.
On Oct 31, 2005, at 12:26 PM, ObjetDart wrote:
I'm having the exact same problem. AAC files (.m4a files from iTunes,
no DRM of course) simply refuse to play on my SB2. I can browse to
the
file from the SB, select it, hit "Play"...the SB acts like it is going
to play it...but nothing ever happens. Meanwhile, the SlimServer web
UI says the track is playing on the SB. But it isn't.
I've read the FAQ entry about this... I understand the issues with
having to convert AAC to FLAC and how FLAC requires a lot of wireless
bandwidth to send. I do not think that is the issue here, I'm running
11g and all wireless devies on the network easily get 1-1.5MB/sec
throughput. It's like the files simply refuse to play, with no error
messages or anything. Anyway, normal lossless FLAC files always play
fine on the same SB.
iTunes is *not* installed on the PC that is running the slimserver - I
assume this is not an issue. Is it?
I tried searching the forums since I'm sure this has been discussed
before, but the search feature seems to be broken (searches for both
"aac" and "m4a" give no results, which seems a bit hard to believe!)
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ObjetDart
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