Hi all,

I have been recently trying to install ryhthmbox, to my Fedora Core 1 (ugraded to Gnome 2.6), and unfortunately having no luck in getting AAC/MP4 support on.

I have both GStreamer and Xine installed and they are both capable of playing AACs.
Infact in configuration of RHythmbox, I turn on MP4 support (--enable-mp4) and compile it like that.

When I try to import a folder full of AACs, Rhythmbox complains like this:

Unsupported MIME type application/octet-stream file:///whatever file is there

does anyone have an idea about how to fix this?

Thanks.

I'm having the exact same problem, hopefully somebody slicker than us will reply

Bill

Hi everybody,
I have upgraded Rhythmbox to 0.8.5 version with yum from freshrpms.net repository (I haven't compiled anything) and now I can play AAC files, the only problem is that Rhythmbox doesn't read the song number well from the ID3 tag.
I'm using GStreamer 0.8.5 and gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0.8.3 package for AAC decoding.
I hope it be useful, good luck.

Hmm, it seems to me that there might be some confusion in this thread about *.aac and *.mp4/*.m4a files, the former can be tagged with ID3 (Winamp does this on default, but it's not a standard method) while the ladder must be tagged with iTunes-compatible tags like the ones that FAAC and FAAD2 would use.

Furthermore I'm not sure if the gstreamer plugin based on FAAD2 also enables the playback of *.aac files, because I read a related bug report that gstreamer would not include an AAC parser for plain *.aac files yet, only one for QuickTime (which obviously means the MP4 container format):

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148993

Anyhow, you could always mux existing *.aac files to *.mp4 with the command line tool mp4creator, so that gstreamer and related apps like rhythmbox should be able to play them. But this would remove existing ID3 tags from the *.aac files. If you encode with FAAC, you can produce new *.mp4/*.m4a/*.m4b (audio book) files with the -o switch using the desired file extension. You can also tag them with the appropriate command line switches, see the help screen.