Re: [madman-discuss] m4a support

[Andreas K. <ak...@ix...>]

Am Mi, den 14.07.2004 schrieb Andreas Kloeckner um 20:07:
> Hi Walt & list,
> 
> Am Mi, den 14.07.2004 schrieb Walt um 19:18:
> > Does madman support .m4a?  A lot of my music was ripped by itunes as 
> > m4a.  I have the plugin for xmms working, but can't add the songs in 
> > madman.  I thought about adding it myself, but was not sure where to start.
> 
> Actually, this might be pretty easy. If anybody on the list can confirm
> that those m4a files are simply mpeg(4) streams with id3 tags in them,
> madman might not even care about the difference between m4a and mp3, and
> the patch would be a true one-liner.

Actually, it would not be a one-liner. Support for m4a needs to arrive
in TagLib before we can even think about adding this. This might
actually not be hard to support if the tags are the same as in MP3s,
however the bitrate/duration decoding would most definitely have to be
rewritten.

Still, can anyone confirm that M4A uses regular ID3(v2?) tags?

Andreas