rhythmbox and aac files

[Michael A. Peters]

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 20:02 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> Admittedly I have mucked around with things. At one time, I did have
> rhythmbox playing aac files pulled off my ipod but rhythmbox kept
> crashing when my ipod was connected so I have tried various things such
> as removing and installing rhythmbox over again and the various
> gstreamer files.
> 
> Right now, it will identify and play mp3 files but not m4a (aac files).
> 
> # rpm -qa|grep rhythmbox
> rhythmbox-0.8.8-2.1.fc3.rf
> 
> # rpm -qa|grep gstream
> gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5-1
> gstreamer-plugins-mp3-0.8.5-0.lvn.2.3
> gstreamer-tools-0.8.7-4.FC3.0
> gstreamer-0.8.7-4.FC3.0
> 
> # rpm -qa|grep faad
> faad2-2.0-4.1.fc3.rf
> 
> xmms will play aac files
> 
> # rpm -qa|grep xmms
> xmms-1.2.10-11.1.1.fc3.rf
> xmms-aac-2.0-4.1.fc3.rf
> xmms-flac-1.1.0-7
> xmms-mp3-1.2.10-11.1.1.fc3.rf
> 
> Any suggestions? 

You would need the aac gstreamer plugins, but last time I checked,
rhythmbox would not play aac files even with them (though totem would).

If you played aac in rhythmbox before, was it possibly xine backend?