Re: [Banshee-List] HELP: Codec support question.

["Christopher Halse Rogers" <chalserogers gmail com>]

On 8/8/08, darius.regnier <darius regnier gmail com> wrote:
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>  Hyperair wrote:
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>  > Well, Banshee uses Taglib to get metadata, and Gstreamer to play them.
>  > What's the error you get
>  > anyway? And are those WMA files DRM'd?
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> Sorry, I guess I worded my question wrong. I'm trying to import an Audio CD.
>  Under Preferences > Audio CD, I am missing a lot of file types that are said
>  to be supported. (I'm beginning to think this is a bug, maybe I should
>  report it?)
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Aaah, right.  So you'd like to _encode_ your CD in wma or aac?

For the first, I don't think we want to support encoding into wma,
since it's generally more of a pain than any other random codec you
could choose.

For the second, there isn't yet a working mp4 muxer for GStreamer, so
while it's possible for GStreamer to generate an aac stream it's not
possible for anything to play that stream back yet :).

I'd suggest encoding to Wavpack or FLAC if you want lossless, ogg if
you want lossy and don't have a portable music player, or mp3 if you
want lossless and have a portable music player that doesn't play ogg.
I think that covers pretty much any use-case you would have.