AAC in windows?
[131 byte] By [Pablo32] at [2007-11-9 12:13:17] 
What program do I use to export aac songs to my ipod? And how do I make AAC playlists? Musicmatch doesn't seem to support AAC.
# 1 Re: AAC in windows?
That's right Musicmatch does not support AAC. To transfer your aac songs onto your iPod you can use the last beta version of Ephpod(search www.ephpod.com/listserver-archives), or Sveta explorer (www.dbpoweramp.com). Sveta isn't free, whereas Ephpod is, but in order to use Ephpod you'll have to rename your .mp4 files to .m4a. For playlists I don't know, maybe Ephpod will do it. Hope this helps,
Pierugg
pierugg at 2007-11-15 17:06:52 >
# 2 Re: AAC in windows?
Hi,I don't know if other people have found this but using Ephpod and aac doesn't seem to work too well,
I can transfer the m4a file over howver the length is wrong, I have emailed the programmer of Ephpod and he siad that it is a known bug and he has a fix in place for the next release.
I'm currently using Sveta until Ephpod is fixed.
Regards
Matt
MattJC at 2007-11-15 17:07:52 >
# 3 Re: AAC in windows?
I tried using sveta, but more often than not, when i transfered a song over. Ephpod was not able to see the songs that i had transferred over at all. Anyone else find this? However sveta makes the process a whole lot less time consuming. One thing that confuses me. Currently i rip to wav with music match, and they are all id3 tagged. Then i use nero and the aac codec that i bought to encode. Works perfect *except* , while the AAC files seam to be named correctly. Is it a case that the id3 tags are not being written to the files, or is it a case that ephpod cannot read id3 tags from aac files yet?
i_wolf at 2007-11-15 17:08:51 >
# 4 Re: AAC in windows?
Hi,I found that after transfering the m4a files to my Ipod using Sveta I had to 'unmount' it first then put it back into its dock and ephod could see it.
Here is how I do it :
1) Encode CD straight to M4a using Nero, I use a manual template for the name - Artist - Title - Track number.m4a
2) Transfer files to Ipod using Sveta
3) Unmount Ipod then reconnect it
4) Use Ephpod to tidy up the tagging
I've encoded a few albums like this and no problems at all.
I think the tags are being writen to the M4a as Quicktime can pick them up and if you use Sveta it does copy extra information over i.e. Album name, however I don't think Ephpod can do this yet, I do remember reading something that this should be fixed in the next releas of Ephod or that there is somthing being written to convert MP4 to M4a but don't quote me !
Regards
Matt
MattJC at 2007-11-15 17:09:51 >
# 5 Re: AAC in windows?
Currently i rip to wav with music match, and they are all id3 tagged Wav files can't be id3 tagged. The song info is stored in the musicmatch music library, not in the file.
Is it a case that the id3 tags are not being written to the files, or is it a case that ephpod cannot read id3 tags from aac files yet?
The id3 tags are not written to the files because they're not in the .wav file, and because id3 is only for mp3 files . Also there is no standard tagging system for aac/mp4. Apple uses it's own, and foobar(i think) also uses one, i don't know if it's compatible with apple's one, maybe nero and sveta also support taggging according to MattJC's experience.
That is the main reason why I don't use MP4/AAC yet, tagging slolutions are not mature enough, I hope a standard will be implemented soon.
for more info about aac/mp4 tagging http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?act=ST&f=13&t=4835&st=0&
pierugg at 2007-11-15 17:10:50 >
# 6 Re: AAC in windows?
The main problem is that the program you use to do the transfering needs to know, and support, the tagging scheme of the program that you used to encode the mp4, otherwise it would have no way to update the iPod database. I haven't used Nero, but unless nero can transfer, then I would suspect that any tagging it did would be useless. Sveta encodes, transfers, and updates the database, so it works fine for mp4's, although I haven't been able to get it to encode in anything other than normal.Bill McNair
SouthsideIrish at 2007-11-15 17:11:50 >
# 7 Re: AAC in windows?
if all else fails u can manually edit tags on ephpod. :)lilmoonee at 2007-11-15 17:12:54 >
# 8 Re: AAC in windows?
I haven't used Nero, but unless nero can transfer, then I would suspect that any tagging it did would be useless AFAIK Nero's tagging system (Menno's) is now recognized by Spoon's Sveta.
Sveta encodes, transfers, and updates the database, so it works fine for mp4's
I'd like to know if it can transfer ID3 tags to MP4 tags when transcoding, and if if can put in MP4 tags from freedb when ripping, do you have any information on this?
Thanks
Pierugg
pierugg at 2007-11-15 17:13:57 >
# 9 Re: AAC in windows?
Originally posted by lilmoonee if all else fails u can manually edit tags on ephpod. :)
Yeah right, just what I want to do, manually edit 1500 songs in ephpod. LoL! Tried it once, and will never do that again.
I'm still pretty much out of the mp4 picture until someone will support foreign characters.
Bill McNair
SouthsideIrish at 2007-11-15 17:14:55 >
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