linux compatible aac player?

nl · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 102

Anyone know of one? I'm thinking of subscribing to itunes, but I don't have an ipod, and in any case I'd like to be able to play the downloaded aac files on my linux desktop too. I presently use juk which supports ogg and my few mp3 files, but as far as I can tell does not support aac. Any ideas?

Thanks.
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lghman · Guru Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Florida

I know there is a aac plugin for xmms.

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CheshireCat · Guru Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 572

The AAC files from ITMS use DRM. I think that vlc can play these, but you need the license file, which it will save if you play your music with the windows version of vlc.

Heimir Freyr · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:02 pm Post subject:

Gstreamer 0.7x claims to be able to play aac files. (I only see 0.6.x in portage however). Since juk uses or can use gstreamer we should get aac-support soon.

Meanwhile I've been using mplayer to play my iTunes-AAC-encoded library.

I did see a gstreamer 0.7 ebuild somewhere around here but I didn't have the skills to add it manually to my portage.

kc8tbe · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 12:46 am Post subject:

Never had any trouble in xine.

emonty · n00b Joined: 26 Feb 2003 Posts: 47 Location: Utrecht

I us gtkpod (is for IPOD, but can work without) and emerged also mpeg4ip,

best of luck

infirit · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 5:12 pm Post subject:

Never tried it but Mplayer is supposed to play aac.
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jrz · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 11:25 pm Post subject:

faad allows aac/mp[eg]4 playback so anything with a faad USE flag should be able to do it. i know rhythmbox with USE="faad" does.
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