I think this may as a result of a change in SS/SC (possibly from 6.5.3
or 4) to minimise use of socketwrapper.  AlienBBC works because it is
playing a stream and has its own code to handles the "types".  

Socketwrapper handles the #FILE# and #FILE# is needed because standard
mplayer cannot output WAV to stdout. I think SC will not use
socketwrapper when playing files of "known" types.

So to avoid changing any Slimserver code - what is needed is a AAC/m4a
decoder which uses stdin/stdout.

Answer: faad. (see http://www.rarewares.org/aac-decoders.php )

Unfortunately I don't the additional command line options to make faad
work but there are some Linux entries in the Wiki such as below - but I
have not tested these to see if there changes needed for Windows.

Code:
--------------------
    
  # Transcoding for AAC files.
  mov flc * *
  [faad] -w -f 2 $FILE$ | [flac] -cs --totally-silent --compression-level-0 
--endian little --sign signed --channels 2 --bps 16 --sample-rate 44100 -
  
  mov mp3 * *
  [faad] -w -f 2 $FILE$ | [lame] --resample 44100 --silent -q $QUALITY$ -b 
$BITRATE$ -x -r - -
  
  mov wav * *
  [faad] -w -f 2 $FILE$
  
--------------------


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