Bugzilla – Bug 11536
Problems with AAC/AAC+ & faad on Mac
Last modified: 2009-06-17 09:37:18 UTC
MacOS X 10.4.11 SC 7.3.3 - 25715 Problems began with the implementation of faad. First I got an error message 'unable to play file' when trying to playback AAC+ streams. After having manually removed bpa's AAC+ plugin the message was 'can't open file'. And now there is no error message anymore but nothing plays. Station/artist/title information are showing and time is elapsing. Example: http://stream-1.ssatr.ch/rsj/aacp AAC files (coded with Nero, extension m4a) do not play neither. Same behaviour as AAC+ streams in Now Playing screen. See attatchment. FLAC/MP3 files and MP3 streams are playing correctly. On Windows XP AAC/AAC+ using faad works flawlessly.
Created attachment 4996 [details] m4a example
Steven: Can you have a look at this one please.
Is it an Intel or PPC system ? I noted this problem was reported by a user in bug 10602 comment no 70 and in emails to Mickey_Gee as a result of the entries by use Quad in this thread http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=408913#post408913.
It's a PowerPC G4. Quad, that's me. I couldn't resist, got a nightly and wrote this bug. Any advice is appreciated. It may start with a simple step-by-step instruction of how to properly re-install SC 7.3.3 and delete all traces of logs, caches and plugins. I already did that, but who knows.
Not sure if the solution of this old bug of mine can help here. https://bugs-archive.lyrion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9638
This seems to be an issue with the faad binary we provide when running on PowerPC but not Intel. The binary runs but does not actually decode anything.
Andy states that we may fall back to MOV123 for PPC only as a possible solution. Steven to try the 'official' mac faad binary
Sounds like an endian issue? - it really needs the developer to have access to a ppc mac...
Andy, I setup a Mac mini G4 on the network with a fresh install of Leopard. You can ssh access it at smsuser@172.19.120.71 with password slimdevices. I also turned on remote management and vnc with the same password. Let me know if you need anything else.
Fixed in change 25859.
Works for me. Thanks. Slimdevices products & support are very much appreciated!
Verified Fix in SC 7.3.3 r25948
This bug has been fixed in the 7.3.3 release version of SqueezeCenter! If you haven't already. please download the new version from http://www.logitechsqueezebox.com/support/download-squeezecenter.html If you are still experiencing this problem, feel free to reopen the bug with your new comments and we'll have another look.