zipperolo
26-06-2009, 06:22 PM
Hi AZBox fellows.
Currently the AZBOx has a weird limitation: the music file browser doesn't recognize the file extensions normally associated with AAC audio files (.m4a and .acc being the ones I can think of).
But if you rename AAC file(s) to a recognized audio format (.mp3 for instance) they get played back normally, which is not surprising since the box has all the necessary codecs.
The pourpose of this post is twofold:
1) To ask beta tester if thay already have signaled this to the OpenSat devs team.
and
2) To see if someone having a better knowlegde of Linux than myself can find / suggest a way we could use to cir***vent this limitation while we wait for OpenSat to add these extensions to the list of the recognized file formats.
While the FW is not open source, so I can't know for sure, I believe this can be fixed with a very small amount of work, unless the extensions are pourposedly left out because AAC compatibility is still incomplete.
The reason I ask this is that I have my whole music library stored in AAC format and there's no way I'm going to rename all the files to .mp3. It would come handy for me to use the AZBox as a music player too but I can't until this gets fixed.
Currently the AZBOx has a weird limitation: the music file browser doesn't recognize the file extensions normally associated with AAC audio files (.m4a and .acc being the ones I can think of).
But if you rename AAC file(s) to a recognized audio format (.mp3 for instance) they get played back normally, which is not surprising since the box has all the necessary codecs.
The pourpose of this post is twofold:
1) To ask beta tester if thay already have signaled this to the OpenSat devs team.
and
2) To see if someone having a better knowlegde of Linux than myself can find / suggest a way we could use to cir***vent this limitation while we wait for OpenSat to add these extensions to the list of the recognized file formats.
While the FW is not open source, so I can't know for sure, I believe this can be fixed with a very small amount of work, unless the extensions are pourposedly left out because AAC compatibility is still incomplete.
The reason I ask this is that I have my whole music library stored in AAC format and there's no way I'm going to rename all the files to .mp3. It would come handy for me to use the AZBox as a music player too but I can't until this gets fixed.