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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>  Christopher Halse Rogers wrote:
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>  > Aaah, right.  So you'd like to _encode_ your CD in wma or aac?
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>  > 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.
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>  > 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 :).
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>  > 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.
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> http://banshee-project.org/support/guide/audio-cds/ According to the user
>  guide, it ALREADY is supported
>  I want to know if this is true or not (the user guide says it is), and if
>  so, why I seem to be unable to import as wma, wav, etc. Is there a
>  non-gstreamer plugin I need, if not, then this is obviously a bug (I have
>  all the gstreamer plugins) and I will report it as such.

My my!  So it does.

Oh, right.  It checks for fluwmaenc on startup; this is going to be
one of the pay-for Fluendo GStreamer plugins[1], I believe.

[1] https://shop.fluendo.com/