Workaround for broken(?) m4a files from ffmpeg, was Re: [PATCH] Output AAC as M4A for iTunes with metadata tags

[richard]

On Fri Apr 8 14:20 Jon Davies wrote:

>
> I did some work off-list with Richard to try and diagnose this, and my
> conclusion is that there's a bug in the mpeg4 container code in
> ffmpeg, but I've yet to prove this.
>
> I did however find some command-line tools which fix the problem, and
> built a script which is called using the command option in get_iplayer
> to fix up the m4a file so that it plays on Marantz CD players. 

I have tested the script on a Marantz CD6003 CD player.

Many thanks to Jon for finding a workaround. Hope it will be of help to
others as well.