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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0004797 | AAC / Video codec plugin | Codec | public | 2008-07-28 16:48 | 2013-03-08 04:58 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Target Version | 2.1.0 | Fixed in Version | 2.1.0 | ||
| Summary | 0004797: Alac encoder | ||||
| Description | We should add support for Alac encoding (either to MM or to the aac plugin). | ||||
| Additional Information | Requested at: http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/staff/index.php?_m=tickets&_a=viewticket&ticketid=1112 http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/staff/index.php?_m=tickets&_a=viewticket&ticketid=9695 Apparently DBpoweramp already has an alac encoder (based on the open source alac decoder??) Also, ffmpeg may be adding support for alac encoding. See: http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2008-June/048382.html | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | 101 | ||||
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DBpoweramp already has an alac encoder that does not require iTunes, or Quicktime and has the advantage of being faster than Apples encoder! (x50 encoding speed on AMD 64), but unfortunatelly they are not allowed by license to open it, or sub-license. The only way is to control dbpoweramp through COM object scripting. More info: http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=10154 |
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Another request: http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/staff/index.php?_m=tickets&_a=viewticket&ticketid=3782¬econfirm=1 |
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It looks to me like ffmpeg already supports alac encoding: http://www.ffmpeg.org/general.html#SEC7 |
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http://alac.macosforge.org/ |
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Since the codec is now open-sourced under Apache license, it should be easy to add to MM 4.1 - raising priority. |
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Fixed in codec pack build 100. Config. dialog of aac codec plugin allows now selecting ALAC (instead of default AAC) for M4A/M4B/MP4 audio files. |
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Shouldn't we start beta testing of ALAC encoding? http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=61162 |
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I did a quick test of the encoder, and there are a couple of problems: 1) Tracks encoded with the encoder generate an AV on playback 2) Converted tracks don't get added to the library even when the option for this is enabled e.g. select a flac file > convert to folder with [x] Add converted files to library --> files don't get added. 3) Tracks encoded with the encoder don't convert with metadata (all metadata is lost except for Title and Artist which are retained via inference from the filename). e.g. follow steps from 2) above and scan the folder --> all metadata is missing except for Title/Artist. |
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Fixed in build 101. |
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Verified. Note that a new build 100 was created (not build 101). |
