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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: cubedco on September 11, 2003, 08:07:21 am

Title: i luv u MC9.1 - AAC support, couple questions
Post by: cubedco on September 11, 2003, 08:07:21 am

Used Winamp for ages... couldn't find a better alternative until MC9 landed in my lap... 30 days and I was hooked.

Anyhow, some guys at work use Mac and have some stuff in AAC format... I can only play them in Winamp and unfortunantly, Winamp can't display the iTune tags either. :(

Is there a way to play the AAC files through MC 9.1? I also heard that the iTune AAC format doesn't have typical ID3 tags -- is this true?

Second question, I setup the media server (which I love!!!!) but I noticed I can change genre and 'rating' from the client MC9 (office computer).... will this affect my library on the server (my home computer) -- i'd like to let my friends preview some of my music but if there is a chance they'll screw something up, I'd rather keep it personal..

Thanks for all the support and community involvement!!! This program owns!

:colin

Title: Re: i luv u MC9.1 - AAC support, couple questions
Post by: escaflo on September 11, 2003, 08:43:14 am

I am just here to welcome you to the club.

As for your question about the media server, I will leave it to people who are more qualified than me to answer it (as I never played around with it before).

As for AAC, as far as I know, MC doesn't support it ... yet (I hope and guess?). There's been quite a lot of request for support for it.

And once again, welcome to the lovely neighbourhood of MC. :)

Title: Re: i luv u MC9.1 - AAC support, couple questions
Post by: John Gateley on September 11, 2003, 09:41:18 am

Media Server can only read the database, not save changes to it.

j

Title: Re: i luv u MC9.1 - AAC support, couple questions
Post by: Wobbley on September 11, 2003, 10:07:52 am

Do a search for AAC support.  The info you're looking for is already in a few threads...

Short answer: Yes, you can get MC to play AAC files.

Wobbley

Title: Re: i luv u MC9.1 - AAC support, couple questions
Post by: escaflo on September 11, 2003, 10:23:54 am

Oops, my bad then. :)

Title: Re: i luv u MC9.1 - AAC support, couple questions
Post by: iCamp on September 11, 2003, 05:27:39 pm

Quote

Short answer: Yes, you can get MC to play AAC files.

huh?  Link please!  I haven't found that thread

Title: Re: i luv u MC9.1 - AAC support, couple questions
Post by: Wobbley on September 12, 2003, 06:52:36 am

You probably couldn't find it because you didn't change your search parameters to include older threads.  Here's the link:

http://www.musicex.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=MediaCenter;action=display;num=1055135742;start=0#0

Wobbley

Title: Re: i luv u MC9.1 - AAC support, couple questions
Post by: cubedco on September 14, 2003, 08:37:18 pm

ty ty.

i tried Foobar before i found out about the MC ACC playback plugin and it sent my computer into a wierd 'loop'. couldn't shutdown --- in fact, it ruined the TOC on my firewire drive. :(



thanks again.

:c