riseringseeker Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 I've been googling, as well as searching this site and others like it (linuxquestions, e.g.). I can find a little info on m4a files on linuxquestions, but a search here turns up nothing. I am running both a laptop and a desktop with 10.1 Official, and was recently given some music in the m3a format. Amorok, which might be good once I use it a little more and figure it out, does not seem to be able to play m4a files, nor does anything else that comes with 10.1 out of the box. I've also installed xmms, which I understand has plugins for these files, but I haven't found them, or don't know what to do with them (yes, I am a relative newbie!) I am currently urpmi'ing mplayer, but am not holding my breath that a) it will install properly, and b) it will play m4a files if it does. Can Amarok be configured to play them? Any other suggestions? I would prefer something that supports at least a basic playlist, but am open to suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 Try installing faad (urpmi faad). If I remember correctly m4a is an other name for aac and for that you need to install the faad package. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riseringseeker Posted February 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 Try installing faad (urpmi faad). If I remember correctly m4a is an other name for aac and for that you need to install the faad package. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> m4a/acc refer to the same type of files I believe, hence the title bar... What is faad? A plugin? An engine? Yet another music program? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 Name : faad2 Version : 2.0 Vendor : Penguin Liberation Front Release : 5plf Date : 2004-07-22 09:02:27 Group : Sound Source RPM : faad2-2.0-5plf.src.rpm Size : 29452 Packager : GĂśtz Waschk < goetz_plf_zarb_org> Summary : Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder version 2 Description : FAAD 2 is a LC, MAIN and LTP profile, MPEG2 and MPEG-4 AAC decoder, completely written from scratch. FAAD 2 is licensed under the GPL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 What is faad? A plugin? An engine? Yet another music program? http://robinbowes.com/article.php/2004080319394853 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 (edited) http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/256899 i once was able to play itunes m4ps on mandrake in xmms and rhythmbox. There was a libm4a or libm4p, I do not remember, but it seems to be gone now. Edited February 4, 2005 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riseringseeker Posted February 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 Try installing faad (urpmi faad). If I remember correctly m4a is an other name for aac and for that you need to install the faad package. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> [root@localhost]# urpmi faad The following packages contain faad: faad2 faad2-xmms gstreamer-faad gstreamer0.7-faad libfaad2_0 libfaad2_0-devel libfaad2_0-static-devel vlc-plugin-faad xine-faad [root@localhost]# Which one, if any will have Amarok play m4a files? (BTW, why does a search here using the keywords "m4a", and/or "AAC" not return any results even when I've put this as the topic?) I did urpmi mplayer, but apparently it did not give me the gui (gmplayer), just the command line, so I get this when I try to run it: [userl@localhost]$ mplayer MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.4.1 © 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium M Banias (Family: 6, Stepping: 5) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection. 77 audio & 188 video codecs Usage: mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename Basic options: (complete list in the man page) -vo <drv[:dev]> select video output driver & device ('-vo help' for a list) -ao <drv[:dev]> select audio output driver & device ('-ao help' for a list) vcd://<trackno> play (S)VCD (Super Video CD) track (raw device, no mount) etc. etc. All I want is a player that will come up with a play list, and will play m4a files. I tried to get Juk, but am told I am missing a library "musicbrainz.so.2" IIRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 urpmf musicbrainz.so.2 will show you what pkg has that file, if it is available in your sources try installing faad2 faad2-xmms and use xmms. I know nothing about kde apps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 (BTW, why does a search here using the keywords "m4a", and/or "AAC" not return any results even when I've put this as the topic?) It can't cope with 3-letter words... :sad: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 5, 2005 Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 k...I lied :o what I actually did was convert itunes m4p to m4a and use the xmms-faad2 plugin to play them. I'm listening to them right now. Did you get it to work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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