Re: Wanted: decent GNOME player with MP4/AAC support

[André Wendt <andre.wendt@web.de>]

Kelly Clowers schrieb:
> On 11/11/06, André Wendt <andre.wendt@web.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm so sick of it. I'm a Debian/testing user running GNOME and would
> > like to find a decent music player with AAC support. I know this must
> > have been asked here or elsewhere a thousand times before, but I have
> > been searching the WWW for too long now.
> >
> > I haven't been able to find a player that suits my needs. Maybe I
> > already have it, and just cannot play my files with it. I don't know. Or
> > maybe all of my 3 requests cannot be served at the same time. :)
> >
> > What I want:
> >
> > * MP4/AAC support (unencrypted files)
> > * manage/browse my music library, preferably with drag and drop support
> > * GNOME interface (anything that requires kdelibs is IMO not fast enough
> > and just looks ugly)
> >
> > Whatever software I have looked at so far, at least one of the above
> > requirements were not met.
> >
> > What I have looked at so far:
> >
> > * Rhythmbox: Can't play MP4/AAC. Gives an error when importing those.
> > * MPlayer: No library, playback works fine.
> > * GNOME Listen: Can't play MP4/AAC, despite what was said on [1].
> > Ignores an import of those.
> > * Banshee: Can't play MP4/AAC. Imports them, but complains about their
> > format when wanting to play them.
> > * XMMS: MP3 sound quality is significantly worse compared to Rhythmbox.
> > I don't care if that's impossible, I can hear it. :)
> > * Amarok: Not GNOME, therefore not tested.
> >
> > If I'm missing anything, please let me know. Don't worry about the
> > free-ness of your suggestions, I'd gladly install plugins or any other
> > required package from repos like debian-multimedia.org.
> >
> > Please CC me, I'm not on this list. And please don't complain about
> > this, my request is CoC-compliant, as can be read on [2]. (We've had
> > this too many times on debian-laptop.)
> >
> > If you need any more information about my setup, I'm happy to provide it.
> >
> > Regards,
> > André
> >
> > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/08/msg00134.html
> > [2] http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct
>
> Do you have Marillat's "gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad" package
> installed? It uses libfaad2 which is apparently the best aac decoder
> out there. If you have that, Rhythmbox and Banshee should be able
> to handle aac.

Thanks for the info. In fact, I have the package installed, but still 
cannot play AAC. I just reinstalled rhythmbox, maybe I installed them in 
wrong order before and something got messed up. (I don't know a lot 
about music libraries and plugins.)

I'll report back if I made any progress.

Regards,
André