music formats and iPod

[Mike Garfias]

If you ripped it it is.  Stuff purchased from iTunes is .m4p - unless you
crack the DRM using JHymm

Craig White spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> 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.
> > 
> ----
> OK I installed rhythmbox and it loads and looks fine. I can't get it to
> load my first test song that I exported from my iPod - Waiting.m4a
> (Santana)
> 
> Is m4a the right extension?
> 
> Craig
> 
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