dinkypumpkin did some great work putting together a patch which makes mpeg4/m4a the default file format for aac sources, rather than raw aac. This works for most people but ...
On 1 April 2011 21:15, richard <[email protected]> wrote: > The m4a file did not play in the Marantz CD player.It will play after > using EasyTag to change a tag. I did some work off-list with Richard to try and diagnose this, and my conclusion is that there's a bug in the mpeg4 container code in ffmpeg, but I've yet to prove this. I did however find some command-line tools which fix the problem, and built a script which is called using the command option in get_iplayer to fix up the m4a file so that it plays on Marantz CD players. This automates the fixup process for those still having problems. I'm not proposing that this becomes part of get_iplayer - it shouldn't - it's just a workaround for this problem until someone gets to the bottom of what's not working with ffmpeg and some players. I'm posting this here so that if anyone else still has problems with m4a files not playing in their favourite media player, there's a workaround. Unfortunately this script only works on linux, and it requires a couple of additional programs. If there's interest I'm happy to have a go at a windows equivalent (I have source and windows executables for the additional programs, it just needs the script). Sorry, I can't help out on macos since I don't have access to a macos system. To install the patch on Ubuntu: $ sudo apt-get install mpeg4ip-utils mpeg4ip-server (from mpeg4ip-utils we need mp4info and mp4tags, and from mpeg4ip-server we need mp4creator. it happens that easytag uses the same underlying mpeg4 library as these tools) There's a script called fixupm4a.sh attached - put this anywhere you like, I'll use /some/path/fixupm4a.sh to refer to it. then make it executable $ chmod a+rx /some/path/fixupm4a.sh and set an option for get_iplayer to call it thus $ get_iplayer --prefs-add --command "/some/path/fixupm4a.sh \"<filename>\"" (or add the following line to ~/.get_iplayer/options command /some/path/fixupm4a.sh "<filename>" - the quotes matter if you end up with a space in the name) You're done. Now every .m4a file produced by get_iplayer will have its metadata fixed and optimised, and it plays nicely on Marantz CD players, and still imports nicely into iTunes. fixupm4a.sh takes a filename as a single parameter, if it's an m4a file then it sets the artist tag to whatever the artist tag was before (this makes mp4tags rewrite the metadata atoms, doing the fix to make the file play), and then optimizes the resulting file to move the metadata to the front. Cheers Jon
fixupm4a.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
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