AAC Audio Files will not play

[erikthered]

About half of my music library is in AAC format (AAC audio in an M4A container). None of this music is playable or is recognized by Boxee. The music I do have in MP3 format works fine. I know AAC/M4A is on the supported format list, so why isn't it working?

Most of my AAC audio I transcoded myself from flac. I do have one or two albums from itunes in M4A, but they are DRM-free. I'd be happy to provide any more information to get this problem solved.

I'm running Boxee on Ubuntu Hardy Heron 32-bit.

[marcel]

hi erikthered

thanks for the report ..we are aware that some formats are still not working(i have opened a report on this ..) ..can you play your files via mplayer?

cheers:)

[jransomed]

erikthered,

I'm not sure if you got this working or not. This post is fairly old so I imagine you did. I also had this problem on my Hardy Heron 32 bit system. The music would get populated in the library, but would play without sound. This may not be the symptom you had exactly, but the fix below may help.

The fix for me was to change Boxee's audio output settings from digital to analog. I had configured Boxee to use digital. Apparently, there is/was a known issue with Boxee playing m4a files with its output set to digital. (As of the build I am using: 0.9-r3970)

Hope this helps. ;-)