Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: rhythmbox
Using gutsy latest:
My music library is stored as FLAC. I have a Nokia N770 that I
occasionally sync music to. HAL correctly recognizes this device, and
mounts it as USB storage. However, when I drag and drop songs/albums
onto it in rhythmbox, a few problems occur:
1. It transcodes music to the device as directed by the HAL config file
(which tells it to use aac). However, the resulting M4A audio files are
mostly static (you can kinda hear the music once in a while). If I
change the HAL config files to use MP3 and re-burn to the device, the
MP3s play fine. That said, it seems the AAC transcoder in gutsy is
broken.
2. Why isn't there a UI in rhythmbox to set the
format/bitrate/extension used for the transcode? Hacking the HAL config
files isn't very user friendly, and as far as I can tell, it only allows
you to set the mime-type, and not the bitrate, or extension. Having
both these latter two items hardcoded by the HAL/Banshee code is
problematic. For example, the N770 media player can playback AAC - but
it wants the extension to be AAC, not the M4A - and I think it is always
using 128kbit, which is fine for MP3, but 64kbit would be ok for AAC.
I'd like to be able to specify both the extension and bitrate, in
addition to the format.
** Affects: rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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USB mass storage and rhythmbox problems
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148672
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