bpa;490156 Wrote:
From SC 7.3.3 and SBS 7.4 onward - m4a support is included as standard.
All your mods (which are for pre 7.3.2) probably have broken m4a
support and so you should remove your mods and possibly re-install
SBS.
If you using a 64 kbit kernel then you need the Ubuntu
bpa;490156 Wrote:
From SC 7.3.3 and SBS 7.4 onward - m4a support is included as standard.
All your mods (which are for pre 7.3.2) probably have broken m4a
support and so you should remove your mods and possibly re-install
SBS.
If you using a 64 kbit kernel then you need the Ubuntu
Strange - with my utterly standard config and without doing anything
special I have not had m4a issues again. I have learned to make sure I
install the restricted library before I install SBS, and things seem
to work automatically always. I just have a very few M4a albums from
iTunes legacy
I am running ubuntu 9.10 and squeezbox server Version: 7.4.2 and m4a's
are still not working for me...
I just created a custom-covert.conf file in etc/squeezeboxserver/ which
looks like this:
# Transcoding for AAC files.
# SC 7.3+
mov flc * *
# F
[faad] -w -f 2 $FILE$ | [flac] -cs
From SC 7.3.3 and SBS 7.4 onward - m4a supporrted is included as
standard. All your mods (which are for pre 7.3.2) probably have broken
m4a support and so you should remove your mods and possibly re-install
SBS.
If you using a 64 kbit kernel then you need the Ubuntu compatibility
libraries
Can anyone point me to a wiki page which describes streaming .m4a files
from a debian server?
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I am running SC 7.3.2 24695. I cannot play standard AAC / .mpa files.
eJohn
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I'm burning some hours on this as well. Mine is a Gentoo SC.
Everything works except for this, so far.
Just a thought here. Aren't the new m4a files downloaded from iTunes
without DRM are supposed to be a different bitrate? I downloaded on
test file from iTunes this morning as a test, so I
Is there a mailing list I can get on so that I can be notified when
SlimDevices changes the name or format of the user custom config
files?
Is there a complete description of the proper new syntax for the
custom-convert.conf file? The description in the header of
convert.conf is for the old
The following is in the header of the convert.conf file that comes with
Squeezcenter 7.3.x. If it is not in your convert.conf then you have
replaced the proper file with an old one.
Code:
#
# $Id: convert.conf 25058 2009-02-18 14:12:27Z andy $
#
# Configuration
I have the same problem only that my hair is turning gray...
SC Version: 7.3.1 on Ubuntu 8.10
Disabling all rules that use mov123 and adding the files
referenced in the above mentioned forum doesn't do the trick.
Playing a song using the squeezecenter gui gives the following:
a) The squeezebox
Does your relevant conf file settings look like this (as detailed in
the Wiki) where it is a single tab or space before the # F not
multiple spaces
Code:
# Transcoding for AAC files.
# SC 7.3+
mov flc * *
# F
[faad] -w -f 2 $FILE$ | [flac] -cs
No it didn't. Of course, the stuff
mentioned in http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpo...81postcount=2
is the old version of the configuration file and doesn't work with
new versions squeezecenter.
With your suggested version of custom-convert it works, with the
slight
change that I had to
The -x issues relates to the version of lame you have installed.
IIRC the developers of lame found a bug where use of -x was inverted
and this was changed between 3.96 and 3.98 I think. So the need for -x
depends on the version of lame installed.
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I am losing the last of my hair over this...
Running SC Version: 7.3.1 on Ubuntu 8.10
I have added the custom files, as described here:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=226481postcount=2
Disabled mov123 in the file system settings and still can't get AAC to
play: the playlist just
Having not succeeded with the suggested mplayer commands in
/usr/share/squeezecenter/custom-convert.conf I set about trying to find
the binaries of lame and faad2 (being uncertain how to compile from
source code) as stated in http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/AAC.
Searching via google etc, I
in ubutnu, all i can recommend is that *right* away after initial
installation, users go into applications/add-remove and type in
restricted to get the restricted ubuntu system stuff - it is vital
for multimedia and normal operation, i think. if you play apple files,
do the faad stuff on top of
Check whether the Linux on eeePC supports /dev/fd/4 - a lot of minimal
Linux implementations (e./g. on NAS) removes full support for /dev/fd
except for /dev/fd/0 1 and 2. It is /dev/fd/4 which is used when doing
4 in the command line.
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I found everything I needed in the wiki @
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/AAC
The syntax has changes in 7.3 and the instructions in the wiki got me
up and running on 7.3.1 in Ubuntu 8.04
Thanks for the support
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Thanks 4mula1. I had not overwritten the original convert.conf but put
the edits in custom-convert.conf as suggested. However, there seems to
be several variations of the scripts for calling mplayer, and I do not
have sufficient knowledge to understand what is the correct one - is
there a help
tony1tf;376839 Wrote:
Thanks 4mula1. I had not overwritten the original convert.conf but put
the edits in custom-convert.conf as suggested. However, there seems to
be several variations of the scripts for calling mplayer, and I do not
have sufficient knowledge to understand what is the
Sorry 4mula1, I am still not having any success. I thought I might be
onto the right track when I saw that custom-convert.conf should be in
my /usr/share/squeezecenter directory rather than the one where
convert.conf is located. Moving it there still didn't work. I have
tried both with # FR and
I took a look at your file and it looks like everything is on one line,
which I don't think SqueezeCenter will like. I moved things to where
they should be and it worked on my setup so I think the file I have
attached for you is just fine.
If this doesn't work go into your SqueezeCenter setup
Thanks for the config file, 4mula1. I still cant play the music but I
might be starting to understand how it works. The error below is saying
it cant create the command line:
[08-12-29 19:11:51.5759] Slim::Player::Song::open (341) Error: Couldn't
create command line for mov playback for
tony1tf;376248 Wrote:
I've read everything I can find on the forums,but I am still unable play
.m4a files (which I believe are also AAC files) on SC 7.3.1 on an EeePC
4G with Squeezebox Duet. Didnt work on 7.3 either, so I just upgraded
to 7.3.1.
I have mplayer installed, but the following
I've read everything I can find on the forums,but I am still unable play
.m4a files (which I believe are also AAC files) on SC 7.3.1 on an EeePC
4G with Squeezebox Duet. Didnt work on 7.3 either, so I just upgraded
to 7.3.1.
I have mplayer installed, but the following edits to
Thank you this solution worked great for me. And Beethoven's 8th is the
reward.
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This solved a problem I didn't even realize I had. My .m4a playback
worked find under Ubuntu 8.04, but since the 8.10 upgrade a week ago
evidently it stopped working and I hadn't even noticed.
Thanks!
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brilliant, signor_rossi. Thanks!
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Just worked for me :)
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I need some help to enable m4a playback with squeezecenter in ubuntu
gutsy. I`ve seen posts giving the solution in these forums but they
talk about editing your slimserver-convert.conf file.
Where is this file? Should it be squeezecenter-convert.conf? What do I
type - sudo gedit ???
I`m
The name of the file is convert.conf and is placed in the Squeezecenter
library (do a search for the file).
Take a look at this post :
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39653
Basicly you just create a new file called custom-convert.conf with the
content of the thread mentioned in the
I hope this is still valid, since I am not sure if this still works with
the latest ubuntu package.
I have a custom-convert.conf in /etc/squeezecenter/ with this content
(transcodes ape and m4a and alac? to wav with mplayer):
Code:
ape wav * *
[mplayer]
you sir are a genius
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