Phil Leigh;537382 Wrote:
> MP4 is not a file type (in SBS-speak), it is a container that can hold
> both AAC and ALAC files. Both of these files have the .m4a extension.
> The only way to tell what an m4a file is, is to open the container and
> have a look (which is what SBS does).
>
> At the moment there is no 100% working native handling for ALAC and
> they should be played/streamed as flac via faad/sox (or via faad as pcm
> if you really prefer that - although I can't imagine why).
> Both of these options now work in 7.5.1 - at least they do under XP and
> I'm pretty certain they do for Macs too - there has been a lot of
> activity recently about this.
>
> IF you look at the bottom of convert.conf you will see that native ALAC
> is commented out at the moment. I imagine that eventually it will be
> made the default (when it works).
>
> ALAC's have always been transcoded to something up until now - and
> still are for the moment.
>
> If your .m4a ALAC files are not being handled via faad, something is
> strange about your setup...
It may work on a PC and on a Mac in the meantime but ALAC is still not
playing under Linux on a NAS drive (QNAP). I've installed the latest
nightly 7.5.1 but without success ("file not found" error).
Could you please try to fix this as well?
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