2011-02-19, 22:49
To celebrate the first new Radiohead album to come out since I started using xbmc I tried playing it. The original WAVs play fine (am listening now), but earlier I'd converted them into Apple Lossless as it's possible to tag those properly, but xbmc refuses to play those. No error message, just a lack of any playback happening.
These files were suffixes (by iTunes) as .m4a; same as Apple's aac files. So I went to try playing some other material in .m4a (no DRM, ripped from CD), and xbmc couldn't play those either.
Google pointed me at some discussion threads about xbmc not playing these files, but they all seem to date from 2005. And looking here: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBM...io_codecs: does list both .m4a and Apple Lossless among the supported codecs.
Wha's happening? :-)
This is xbmc stable on ubuntu lucid; specifically xbmc 10.00~svn35648-lucid1 on ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS on an Acer Revo. And it plays AAC tracks in videos just fine. :-)
These files were suffixes (by iTunes) as .m4a; same as Apple's aac files. So I went to try playing some other material in .m4a (no DRM, ripped from CD), and xbmc couldn't play those either.
Google pointed me at some discussion threads about xbmc not playing these files, but they all seem to date from 2005. And looking here: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBM...io_codecs: does list both .m4a and Apple Lossless among the supported codecs.
Wha's happening? :-)
This is xbmc stable on ubuntu lucid; specifically xbmc 10.00~svn35648-lucid1 on ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS on an Acer Revo. And it plays AAC tracks in videos just fine. :-)