Wanted: GStreamer Knowledge
This afternoon I discovered that the FAAC and FAAD encoders have been ported to GStreamer 0.10, so I hastily installed gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse and started writing a profile so that I could encode straight to AAC files from Sound Juicer, for my iPod. This is where the world would rejoice, if it were so simple.
My first worry was that the faac element doesn't implement the tagging interface, so I may have AAC data but there is no track information. I then noticed that file wasn't identifying the files as AAC, but as just data. Starting to panic, I dived into #gstreamer and discovered some bad news. By setting an option on the encoder (outputformat=1) I get AAC data that is recognised, and Xine will play it, but it's not wrapped in a Quicktime container so can't be tagged and probably won't play on an iPod.
This is my challenge. If someone can write enough of a Qt muxer that supports tagging so that straight from Sound Juicer I can create .m4a files that play on my iPod without any hassle, I'll give you a free Sound Juicer t-shirt and my eternal gratitude. Anyone interested?
NP: Remembranza, Murcof. Yes, again, it's great.
Three Things I Love
- Espresso shots in a glass of ice-cold milk. Quick and easy coffee boost and cooling drink in one.
- Remembranza, by Murcof (Fernando Corona). Similar technically to his first album Martes but less electronic. The soundscape is far smoother whilst remaining as sparse, and the album feels a lot more relaxed. Fernando is a magician.
- Benchmarks that say before: 6.5s and then after: 3.3s. Yay for rewrites!
- Update for new nautilus-cd-burner API (William Jon McCann)
NP: Remembranza, Murcof
Sound Juicer "We Could Have Been Strangers If We Tried" 2.15.3
Sound Juicer "We Could Have Been Strangers If We Tried" 2.15.3 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Still very little progress...
