>From what I remember, the builds from Ubuntu *don't* play m4a, because it's not free software. For mpd to play anything using non-free codecs/libraries, you have to install the necessary libraries,and build mpd yourself.
(I suppose it's possible this has changed; I've been building it myself for a long time now.) On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Kesh Ikuma <tik...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Assuming that I can only use one of these, only [faad] returned w/o > error (which is expected), but it only says: > > > > > > time=0 > > > > > > not including album and title that I was able to retrieve. ???? > > > > This plugin will not be used for *.m4a, because the extension is not > > listed above. Do *.m4a files actually appear in the database on a MPD > > client? > > Yes, both appears and plays back fine. > > > > > Also, > > > I was looking at my MPD library and noticed that there are some m4a > > > files which artist tag shows up. But none of the genre tags are > > > shown. > > > > Were those files scanned before you recompiled, and now you have a MPD > > binary that cannot decode *.m4a? > > I've tried 3 (or 2) versions of MPD so far (off repos of Ubuntu 10.04 and > 11.04 and git 0.17) and all 3 builds were able to play back .m4a just fine. > > I cam across this (old) post on Ubuntu forum: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217049 > > in which the OP had the same issue with m4a files but in Amarok under > Kubuntu. Then, down the thread someone states that "The Amarok faq says you > have to have gstreamer-faad and gstreamer-quicktime to play m4a files." MPD > doesn't use gstreamer, does it? > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with > vRanger. > Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is > safe, > secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. > Get your free trial download today. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 > _______________________________________________ > Musicpd-dev-team mailing list > Musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/musicpd-dev-team > >
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