[PATCH] Output AAC as M4A for iTunes with metadata tags (Shevek)

[James Cook]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:05:17 +0000, you wrote:

>
>In my opinion, ffmpeg handles aac/m4a files in a way that
>isn't friendly with some players.
>
>It's not just the BBC files either.
>When I convert other files to m4a using ffmpeg like this:-
>ffmpeg -i foo -acodec libfaac foo.m4a
>
>they won't play in the Shuffle until I've modified them using EASYTag.

Are you sure you are using the ffmpeg Shevek mentioned?

type 
ffmpeg -version
and you shoud get something like:

FFmpeg version git-c9e16a9-Sherpya, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg
developer
s
  built on Feb  4 2011 07:04:01 with gcc 4.2.5 20090330 (prerelease)
[Sherpya]
  libavutil    50. 37. 0 / 50. 37. 0
  libavcore     0. 16. 1 /  0. 16. 1
  libavcodec   52.109. 0 / 52.109. 0
  libavformat  52. 95. 0 / 52. 95. 0
  libavdevice  52.  2. 3 / 52.  2. 3
  libavfilter   1. 74. 0 /  1. 74. 0
  libswscale    0. 12. 0 /  0. 12. 0
  libpostproc  51.  2. 0 / 51.  2. 0
FFmpeg git-c9e16a9-Sherpya
libavutil    50. 37. 0 / 50. 37. 0
libavcore     0. 16. 1 /  0. 16. 1
libavcodec   52.109. 0 / 52.109. 0
libavformat  52. 95. 0 / 52. 95. 0
libavdevice  52.  2. 3 / 52.  2. 3
libavfilter   1. 74. 0 /  1. 74. 0
libswscale    0. 12. 0 /  0. 12. 0
libpostproc  51.  2. 0 / 51.  2. 0

JC