I’m using Banshee as my primary audio player, and I really like it, but I have one problem: I can’t play any songs in the m4a format, which basically my entire iTunes library is made up of. I downloaded the SUSE package that contains Java and the basic file extensions, but still no solution. I have Banshee updated to the most current version (0.13.1).
The above assumes that you are running OpenSUSE 10.3. If you are running 11.0 you may have to wait until Packman contains the directory suse/11.0. This should be shortly after 11.0 final in (9) days.
Okay, I downloaded the Xine-Lib files and something is still missing. I got all of the files to be imported, but none of them play now: if I double-click to play them, they sit on 0:00 and although it says they are playing, I can’t even move the slider for the song time (where in the song you want to play).
I don’t run Banshee, but when I did it used to depend on having the correct GStreamer plugins installed. PackMan :: Search results
Couldn’t tell you which one you might be missing though. (Anything with ‘good, bad, & ugly’ in it’s name must be good ;))
A Banshee user needs to help you. Good luck, from an Amarok user…LOL.
I think nsciboli could be correct. It can be difficult sorting these audio requirements at times, as different names are used for the codec. In the case of m4a this wiki: MPEG-4 Part 14 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
notes m4a, mp4 and mpeg-4 are often used in a manner that is confusing.
Unseen-Ghost, you could search the packman site for mpeg4 to see what hits you get, but even that won’t give you a link to gst-plugins-bad. But after reading nsiboli’s post, I went to the gstreamer site and noted this: Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plug-ins_0.10.8_Vapour Trails
where a fix to the latest gstreamer is “MPEG-4 video stream parser fixes” suggesting it supports MPEG4 and hence m4a. And if you find that a bit confusing to logically search for the app that gives the correct codec, … well, … so do I. :rolleyes: