@Jeff, Thanks for the response. I'm fairly certain that the current Ubuntu version (v2.7) of faad supports m4a files.
Here's the info that faad to command "faad -i ~/Music/Michael\ Jackson/Thriller/04\ Thriller.m4a" ---- /home/mpd-dev/Music/Michael Jackson/Thriller/04 Thriller.m4a file info: LC AAC 357.447 secs, 2 ch, 44100 Hz iTunSMPB: 00000000 00000840 00000278 0000000000F0B948 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 iTunNORM: 0000051C 00000536 00002EA3 00002C70 00051738 00051738 000074DC 00007706 00015398 00015398 title: Thriller artist: Michael Jackson album_artist: Michael Jackson writer: Rod Temperton album: Thriller genre: Pop track: 4 totaltracks: 9 disc: 1 totaldiscs: 1 compilation: unknown: date: 1982 [snip] ---- As you can see both artist and genre are showing up properly. Could it be due to some changes in faad library implementation over time? Kesh From: jefr...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 12:38:49 -0500 Subject: Re: [Musicpd-dev-team] Database search problem with iTune .m4a files To: tik...@hotmail.com CC: musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net >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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