music formats and iPod

[Ted Gould]

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.

		--Ted