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mp4/aac/m4a support
by Nicholas Fellows on Thursday 15/Apr/2004, @08:23

I've been using Juk for a while now, its taken over pretty much from XMMS as my defacto player. Most of my files are in mp3 format (this is in forsight of buying a hard disk based player, maybe even an iPod if i can afford one!) I have recently come into ownership of a substantial quantity of mp4/m4a files which dissappointingly juk doesnt like to play.

I was going to have a look at the source code for juk and see if there was any way I could implement this but i dont really know where to start.

I have discovered a couple of tools which enable me to play mp4 / m4a / aac files under linux (XMMS being one of them) i discovered a really useful tool which enables me to convert to wav file its called
<A href="http://www.audiocoding.com/download.php">"faad"</A> http://www.audiocoding.com I think mplayer uses it! (unfortunately juk wont play wav's either and recompressing into another lossy format is not a route i wish to travel)

faad also allows the file to be output to stdio, this means it should be a really trivial job to get mp4 working in juk! Please , Please Please implement this feature , or at least give some clues to a clueless person how i might go about adding it myself using these tools; (who hasnt even considered the implications of tag editing!)

nick ...

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Re: mp4/aac/m4a support
by niki on Sunday 05/Jun/2005, @08:30

well... I had a similar problem, and finaly, I tried that...
If you change your mind about recompressing the files...
* If you find a way to play m4a with XMMS, I'm interested!
the following scripts need LAME and FAAD to work...

###########
# m4a2mp3 #
###########
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
next if ($file !~ /\.m4a$/i);
my $base = $file; $base =~ s/\.m4a$//i;
system "faad -o \"$base.wav\" \"$file\"";
system "lame -h \"$base.wav\" \"$base.mp3\"";
unlink("$base.wav");
print "$base.m4a converted to mp3.\n";
}

###########
# mp42mp3 #
###########
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
next if ($file !~ /\.mp4$/i);
my $base = $file; $base =~ s/\.mp4$//i;
system "faad -o \"$base.wav\" \"$file\"";
system "lame -h \"$base.wav\" \"$base.mp3\"";
unlink("$base.wav");
print "$base.mp4 converted to mp3.\n";
}

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Re: mp4/aac/m4a support
by David on Friday 27/Apr/2007, @15:03

apt-get install xmms-mp4

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Re: mp4/aac/m4a support
by MattoHippo on Saturday 13/Aug/2005, @10:10

Check out http://www.qwirx.com/xmms-plugin-mp4/xmms-plugin-mp4-0.4-1.i386.rpm for the rpm and src's.

I installed the rpm and it worked fine for all of my m4a's. Hope it works for you.

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Re: mp4/aac/m4a support
by Chad on Thursday 02/Mar/2006, @05:47

this works like a champ! Thank you!

Chad

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Re: mp4/aac/m4a support
by Till on Sunday 05/Mar/2006, @23:17

In case you're still wondering, check
http://www.captain.at/howto-debian-sarge-xmms-mp4-plugin.php

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