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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: pahunt on March 19, 2006, 03:11:57 am

Title: M4b and native playback
Post by: pahunt on March 19, 2006, 03:11:57 am

I have a large number of audiobook CDs which I have ripped using ITunes into aac format. So that the playback position can be remembered on my iPod I have given them a file extension of m4b. However Media Center is playing them through QuickTime and won't let me analyze them, although this is not a problem if I change the file extension to m4a. I'm guessing it's seeing the m4b extension and just assuming they're protected and not going any further.

Is there any way around this so that I can use the native playback engine and still use bookmarks on my iPod?

Title: Re: M4b and native playback
Post by: Alex B on March 19, 2006, 03:39:18 am

You could try to edit this file with Notepad:

[MC program path]\Data\Default Resources\FileAssociations.xml

Find this line:
<DSTypes>m4a;aac;mp4;wv;ra;ram;rm;ac3;dts</DSTypes>

and add m4b to the extension list:
<DSTypes>m4a;aac;mp4;wv;ra;ram;rm;ac3;dts;m4b</DSTypes>

Title: Re: M4b and native playback
Post by: pahunt on March 19, 2006, 04:59:13 am

Thanks very much, that seems to do the trick  :)