Re: [Banshee-List] FINALLY!!! Banshee for Windows and AAC decoding

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 03:59 -0700, rtX wrote:
> Like you I happily use Banshee on Linux.
> I recently tried to move away from iTunes to Banshee on my Windows machine,
> and get similar update message issues etc. but also when I try to play AAC
> encoded music (which is most of my music), I get the message "Missing
> GStreamer Plugin MPEG-4 AAC decoder".  I understand what this means but,
> t.b.h. I am a bit clueless about why I get it.  I have tried installing
> (independently) both the 64 and 32 bit versions of GStreamer for Windows
> from http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/pkg/windows/1.0.7/ but
> subsequently Banshee still reports the same issue.  Also, having given the
> error message it seems to try to play the track anyway, although nothing
> actually happens other than the play/pause icon changing
> Is there any news about a beta or RC version of Banshee for Windows?

Codecs are a nightmare on any/every platform.  I'd suggest asking on the
gstreamer list;  someone is more likely to know something there [I'd
really expect the codec to already be there on Windows...]

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam whitemice org> GPG D95ED383
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