Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee cannot play m4a files

["Sandy Armstrong" <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

As others have said, Banshee will play whatever media you have
gstreamer codecs for.  Please see this page to help you get those
codes for openSUSE 10.3:

http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats/10.3

Have fun,
Sandy

2008/5/29 Michael Stroh <mstroh acm org>:
> Well, basically I have openSuse 10.3 and I connected my iPod with about 800
> songs. Banshee sucked them all up into my home  directory. So almost all
> these files are m4a and only a few are mp3 files. The mp3 files play okay
> but the m4a files don't play at all
>
> Are you saying that Bansahee doesn't support this m4a format at all??
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:45 AM, Sandy Armstrong
> <sanfordarmstrong gmail com> wrote:
>>
>> That's pretty old...I'm sure there are packages now that provide the
>> support (because I've used them!).  I just can't remember exactly
>> which package provides them.  ;-)  Probably gstreamer0.10-bad or
>> gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg.
>>
>> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Alan McGovern <alan mcgovern gmail com>
>> wrote:
>> > I did a *really* quick google, and this is the first link that seemed
>> > to give a good description on what to do:
>> >
>> >
>> > http://www.marteydodoo.com/2006/02/01/compiling-aac-support-in-ubuntu-dapper-with-gstreamer-010/
>> >
>> > Basically, you just need the gstreamer based aac decoder installed and
>> > banshee should be able to play your AAC files.
>> >
>> > Alan.
>> >
>> > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Sandy Armstrong
>> > <sanfordarmstrong gmail com> wrote:
>> >> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:11 AM,  <infernux web de> wrote:
>> >>>> Can anyone please help? I am trying to play m4a files (iTunes
>> >>>> specific) but Banshee will not play them. Any help would be greatly
>> >>>> appreciated.
>> >>>
>> >>> Do you mean "iTunes specific" a la "m4a with itunes drm"? In that case
>> >>> you are out of luck because banshee can not support playing those files.
>> >>
>> >> Those would be m4p files.  If he has m4a they are just regular
>> >> unprotected iTunes-created AAC files.
>> >>
>> >> Sandy
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