Re: EphPod future plans

I tested the files I posted about before on iTunes. Both would display
and play properly when called .mp4, but of course I couldn't send them
to the iPod.

When renamed to .m4a, however, I had interesting results. I could put
both files on the iPod, and both played on the iPod. However,
test-faac.m4a would not play in iTunes. iTunes said "not available" in
the song length column. When playing it on the iPod the elapsed time
shows 0:00 and remaining time -0:00 while the song plays.

Test-quicktime.m4a played OK in iTunes and showed the correct time while
playing on the iPod.

So it looks like iTunes is fussier about the songs it plays than the
iPod (or Quicktime) is, which is not too bad for Windows users, but
might be a pain for people going between Windows and Mac.

On Fri, 2 May 2003 22:10:54 +1000 
[email protected] wrote:

> Actually, mine worked in iTunes with the extension of .mp4, and *didn't*
> 
> work with .m4a.
> 
> I used the command-line options that you wrote down exactly...  
> 
> I'll try some other wavs.
> 
> --joe
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2 May 2003, Hamish O'Dea wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2 May 2003 13:42:30 +1000 
> > [email protected] wrote:
> > 
> > > > This worked for me:
> > > > faac -m 4 train.wav train.aac
> > > > mp4creator60.exe -create=train.aac train.mp4
> > > > 
> > > > Both tools are available from rarewares:
> > > > http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/aac.php
> > > > http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/mp4.php
> > > > 
> > > > I can't remember if I had to rename the file to .m4a for iTunes to
> > > play
> > > > it. Just to confuse things, Quicktime on Windows played it when
> called
> > > .mp4,
> > > > but *not* .m4a. More confusion: copy protected songs bought from
> the
> > > > iTunes store are apparently called .m4p.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > More issues on my end...  I pulled in the .mp4 file into iTunes and
> it 
> > > would play, but wouldn't let me copy it over to my iPod.  I renamed
> the 
> > > file to .m4a, but then iTunes failed to play the song at all.
> > > 
> > > Seems like we're not going to be able to make these .m4a files on
> > > Windows 
> > > machines...?  Let me know if anyone out there is able to do this...
> > > 
> > 
> > I had the same problem when the file was called .mp4, but it worked
> when
> > it was .m4a. iTunes played it, and I could drag it to the iPod.
> > 
> > The iPod played both the file I created with faac/mp4creator and one I
> > made with Quicktime. I couldn't seek on the faac file though, it
> didn't
> > display any time elapsed/remaining.
> > 
> > Hamish.
> > 
> > 
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