Questions tagged [aac]
aac or Advanced Audio Codec is a lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio.
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Not able to get AAC codec running when connecting Bluetooth headsets in Ubuntu 22.10
I'm not able to get the AAC codec working when I connect my Bluetooth headsets, only SBC and SBC-XQ are available to me which results in losing the connection entirely or the quality becomes worse, ...
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Rewind problem after convert *.mp3 to *.aac
I need to prepare audio files in MP3 format for sending via WhatsApp to Android and iOS devices with the ability to pause and mainly rewind.
To do this, I use the ffmpeg utility on my notebook with ...
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MPEG 4 Audio Support Not Working in Rhythmbox 3.4.4 (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS)
In Rhythmbox 3.4.4 - which is included with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ("Focal Fossa") - there is the option to "rip" music in MPEG-4 Audio (".m4a") format... Underneath said option, there is a big ol' button ...
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How do I produce xHE-AAC Audio files under Ubuntu?
Under Ubuntu I can easily produce AAC files: AAC-LC, HE-AAC and even HE-AACv2. But how do I produce the newest form of AAC: xHE-AAC which promises to give a consistent performance at low data rates?
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lossless cutting of AAC sound file
I have a longer duration AAC sound file that I want to split. It is an OST (Original Sound Tracks) compilation containing mostly voiceless / without singing soundtrack music, but also some songs with ...
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Sound converter on Ubuntu Gnome offers no option for converting audios to m4a
Can't seem to find anything missing for Sound converter on Ubuntu 18.04 for no longer offering to convert audios to m4a.
Any suggestions?
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Recovering corrupted m4a recordings
I have been using Ubuntu on my school computer this year, I usually record the lectures that I can't hope to keep up with the prof, I have permission to do this. I have been using the default audio ...
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error: Unable to initialize the encoder: Transport library initialization error
I'm trying to run an audio encoder using ffmpeg command but when I try to encode in aac_ld codec or aac_eld codec, it gives me an error stating that...
[libfdk_aac @ 0x1e20770] Unable to initialize ...
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Embedding album art in m4a files?
I have a directory of m4a files together with a single album art image named cover.jpg. How can I 'embed' this album art image into the m4a files using the command line?
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How to import audio CD as .m4a with album art?
I have a bunch of music CDs that I want to digitize as .m4as with album art, so that I can use them with iTunes on a virtual machine. Is there a simple way to just read the tracks off the CD in .m4a ...
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How do I produce great quality AAC files under Xenial Xerus?
I would like to produce high quality AAC files from a small library of wav files under Xenial Xerus 16.04 LTS.
I am keen to be able to select between AAC-LC, HE-AAC and HE-AAC v2 for the output files....
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How can I rebuild the faac package to get mp4/m4a support and higher bitrates?
The copy of faac under Ubuntu Trusty Tahr 14.04 has 2 limitations:
It does not have mp4/m4a support
It cannot use high bitrates
How can I rebuild faac, using correct Debian packaging techniques, to ...
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How to display XML radio information in plain text on Rhythmbox?
My local radio station provide an XML feed on the AAC file. Here is the url :
http://ckmf-aac.akacast.akamaistream.net/7/493/102120/v1/astral.akacast.akamaistream.net/ckmf-aac
At each song, there is ...
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VLC not playing aac files and a webm file
I have a few music files in aac format which I want to play through VLC. But VLC ain't playing any of them. It's not showing any error or any other message, it simply stops as soon as I play them.
I ...
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How to add metadata to AAC files?
I want an app that can add metadata to AAC audio files, I've tried several one but none of them actually detect my audio files in the subfdolder like: Quod Libet, Ex Falso, EasyTAG Audio tag viewer/...
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Convert flac to m4a at 400Kps?
It's worth a try, I love linux and I have so many years using it but now there's only one thing that I cannot do. I have my music collection in flac and I always convert flac to m4a using nero aac ...
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easyMP3Gain: Error: Cannot start aacgain
I'm running Xubuntu 14.04 and trying to adjust the volume of my aac music files using easyMP3Gain, but lamentably getting an error I cannot fix.
Exact version: easymp3gain-gtk 0.5.0+svn135-4
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Icecast on linux using AAC
I'm pretty new to using Icecast. We are streaming MP3s from a Linux box with Icecast, but we need to move to AAC. How can I make Icecast stream AAC files?
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How to edit tags in AAC files?
In the old days, there used to be an EasyTag extension specifically for this purpose. Today there does not seem to be one and EasyTag does not list AAC files in its GUI. Rythmbox issues an error ...
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How to specify flac compression level when converting with avconv?
I am trying to convert some aac files to flac files, because aac is not supported by another device I use.
After some multiple attempts to find a solution, searching the Internet, I finally read that ...
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How to install avconv with libfdk_aac on Ubuntu 14.04?
How to install or compile avconv with libfdk_aac on Ubuntu 14.04 ? I am also ok with comparable aac codecs e.g. http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Fraunhofer_FDK_AAC
Currently I am trying ...
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Transcode to aac on Ubuntu 14.04 using vlc
I am trying to stream a dvb stream in VLC but transcoding the audio to aac format however it can't find the encoder. How do I install it?
VLC media player 2.1.4 Rincewind (revision 2.1.4-0-g2a072be) ...
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How to play .aac / .m4a files in cmus in 14.04 (trusty)?
I am unable to playback .m4a (aac) files in cmus. They work in mplayer and totem. Anyone know a fix?
$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS \n \l
I already tried blowing away ~/.gstreamer*, updating ...
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WinFF (FFMPEG): Unknown encoder 'libvo_aacenc'
When I try to convert a video - specifically, a Video Object (".vob") file - to MPEG-4, WinFF which I assume is a frontend for ffmpeg and avconv, but it tells me:
`Unknown encoder 'libvo_aacenc'`
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How to extract aac audio from an mp4 file to m4a
How can I extract the aac audio from an mp4 file?
I tried with ffmpeg and -acodec copy but if i use mp4 as output it will still encode the video and I get the same file size.
If I use m4a as output ...
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Why doesn't the faac package support mp4?
In Ubuntu 13.10, faac doesn't support MP4.
If you run faac --help you get:
Freeware Advanced Audio Coder
FAAC 1.28
Usage: faac [options] infiles ...
Options:
-q Set ...
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Batch extract audio with avconv without transcoding
I have about 70 mp4 files, and I want to extract the audio files directly without transcoding further. All the mp4 files have aac audio files.
I understand I can use the following command to extract ...
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How to install the MPEG-4 AAC decoder and the H.264 decoder?
Where do I get the MPEG-4 AAC decoder, and the H.264 decoder.
How to install them and play the multimedia?
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How to convert 5.1 AAC streams to AC3 for S/PDIF output?
I connect my PC to my home theater via SPDIF, so when watching video files that uses AAC 5.1 channels, it is downmixed to stereo and the surround channels are lost.
I would like to be able to convert ...
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How to convert AC3 6ch audio to HE-AAC? GUI solution?
I want to convert the audio track of a MKV file to HE-AAC (AAC+/AACplus). The audio track is AC3. But there seems no GUI for HE-AAC encoding? I only found out there is a Command Line Tool (CLI) from ...
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Is there now any way to convert mp3 files to m4a or aac 192kbit?
Since about two years now I am trying to find a way to convert high quality mp3 files to m4a or aac files with a fixed bitrate 192k. Please don't suggest using another format - i thought this through ...
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How to export to AAC audio from Audacity?
Exporting to MP3 audio from Audacity works fine, but exporting to "M4A (AAC)" results in nothing. No file is created or whatsoever.
I can see that it depends on "ffmpeg" library to work, but the ...
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How to convert ogg to aac music format?
I want to convert a ogg file to aac. But I need to transfer all the data of the ogg file (i.e. album, year, cover,...) to the aac file using a shell comand.
Thanks!
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How to make Banshee to play AAC audio streams?
I have played MP3 radio with Banshee but I had to use VLC to play AAC streams.
How to make it work with Banshee?
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converting aac to mp3 via command line
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Is there some cli tool to convert aac files from the iTunes Store (no DRM) to mp3?
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MP3 to MP3
I installed libavcodec-unstripped-52 and get a little further.
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