music formats and iPod

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 18:18 -0700, Ted Gould wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > now that I've ripped 3000 songs from my cd's I'm beginning to wonder if
> > I made a mistake by having the default format AAC (Apple's format).
> > 
> > I can export the music using gtkpod but I can't see a plug-in for xmms
> > that plays .m4a files (I presume that this is Apple's AAC) and I REALLY
> > don't want to start over...It's taken me a long time to get this far.
> > 
> > Any ideas about what is the best way to handle these things? 
> 
> I believe that recent versions of Rhythmbox support AAC.
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/
> 
> But, they are using GStreamer, so any GStreamer based audio program 
> should support them.  I don't think the GStreamer plugins for AAC are on 
> all distros, you might have to find them for your's.
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clearly the issue here - my gstreamer and gstreamer-plugins emanate from
FC-3 and that has to be why the mp3 & m4a files aren't playing for me.

OK - I see I got my work cut out for me. 

Thanks

Craig