On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:18, David SPOOF Hemenway wrote: > I can't seam to find a list of what formats are supported, just that > you say it has robust format support, and a couple examples with > dependencies to get for them. > Do you support .m4a, aka AAC format? Presently if you use the Xine player and the monkey-media metadata loader, the answer is yes (at least I think so, I've never tried it myself). Using GStreamer, the answer is that I'm not aware of a GStreamer plugin to either play back AAC or load metadata from it. However once one is written it would be incredibly trivial to get Rhythmbox support for it; just edit metadata/rb-metadata-gst.c, and add an entry to rb_metadata_type_map. Hopefully soon with a bit more work in GStreamer, that last step won't be necessary, and all you'll need to do is install a plugin. > Please let me know, and/or let me know what might be required to > add in AAC support, as I and a couple friends may find some time to do > development over the summer for a few projects. My personal opinion is that GStreamer is the way of the future, and so if you want to do AAC, you should get a GStreamer plugin written. That said, Xine and monkey-media aren't going away tomorrow or anything, and people continue to submit changesets for Xine at least, so you are also free to use/improve those. Long term though, I really want to get out of having Rhythmbox be in the format-specific metadata business entirely; i.e. drop monkey-media or have it be a standalone library that other Xine-based players can use. No one has yet expressed interest in maintaining monkey-media though.
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