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General Category => Bugs => Topic started by: grsmith26 on October 28, 2014, 21:40:50

Title: ALAC streams being reported as AAC
Post by: grsmith26 on October 28, 2014, 21:40:50
I have files ripped to ALAC (m4a container), using dbPowerAmp. 
VLC Media Player properly reports that these m4a files contain ALAC streams. 
But, when Similarity reads these files, it reports them as AAC. 
Since QuickTime is doing the decoding, this seems to raise 3 possibilities.
Anyone know what's going on here?
Title: Re: ALAC streams being reported as AAC
Post by: Admin on November 02, 2014, 01:00:56
Similarity doesn't transcode between compressed formats it just "asks" decoders to give him pure PCM audio stream, then work with this audio data. In your situation it's just wrong stream format, our QuickTime decoder doesn't fill stream type, this field filled by file extension parser. We try to change this behaviour in next version.