Re: Cutting Edge

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:52:07 +1000
"O'Dea, Hamish" <Hamish.O'Dea@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I've tried just replacing exising files with AAC files created by iTunes
> 4 (they're named *.m4a, BTW). Couldn't get it to work.
> 
> I did copy some AAC files and the entire iTunesDB from a MAC iPod to my
> FAT32 one and it works. I guess we need Ephpod to write the database
> properly.
> 
> Some useful binaries for encoding/decoding AAC/MPEG4 files can be found
> here:
> 
> http://www.inf.ufpr.br/~rja00/
> 

It looks like the extension is important. I renamed to .m4a and manually
hacked the file name in iTunesDB, and it works.

For anyone interested, this is how I created a working m4a/mp4 file. I
used FAAC and the MPEG 4 tools from the above web site, but I guess the
Nero plugin would do the trick as well. If Quicktime plays it, the iPod
should too.

faac -m 4 train.wav train.aac
mp4creator60.exe -create=train.aac train.mp4

Hamish.


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