Windows Media and Sprint Media player not working with AAC files?

daryllh · #1 (**permalink**) 10-03-2008, 12:20 PM

I guess I should do a little more investigating but something struck me odd this morning.

A couple days ago, I installed the latest itunes on my computer. I was scratchin' my head when I couldn't find and option for converting files. Where the drop down was in previous versions (Importing...what type, wav, mp3, aac, etc) there wasn't a similar option to convert.

So, I tried to convert a cd i had just bought. When I right clicked, it asked if i wanted to save as AAC. I did because most of my stuff is higher quality mp3 or AAC.

Put that disc on my phone this morning and started listening. Intermittent drops in audio. I must say that this is the first time I listened to audio on the phone so I wasn't sure what was up.

I had another album that I know was converted to mp3. I played a couple songs off of that. No dropout of audio.

Then, I went back to the new cd (aac files). I was living with the dropouts but then, the sprint media player stopped. it was showing that it was still playing but it wasn't. Hit the pause button and hit it again to play. Song went to the beginning. this was after about 4 minutes of AAC file playing.

Switched to Windows Media Player. Almost the exact same thing happened. The only other issue was that as I got off the bus and got to work, WMP stopped playing the file and I couldn't hit any button to get out of the player. I had to soft reset.

I am using Juicy's 2.2 Sprint ROM. I am guessing that it's maybe an issue with playing AAC files? I've been a faithfull user of itunes since it came out on PC. I've never had a problem with it but if it indeed is not allowing me to import to other than AAC, I may switch media players on my computer.

**jason25** · #2 (**permalink**) 10-03-2008, 12:33 PM

I use iTunes as my default player also, but everything is mp3

AstainHellbring · #3 (**permalink**) 10-03-2008, 12:41 PM

never convert your **** to aac aac is garbage stupid ****ting apple mess

daryllh · #4 (**permalink**) 10-03-2008, 12:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AstainHellbring

never convert your **** to aac aac is garbage stupid ****ting apple mess

"Yeah well, you know, that's just like your opinion, man."

-Jeffrey Lebowski

land2634 · #5 (**permalink**) 10-03-2008, 02:18 PM

Yeah, I personally don't like the new iTunes...

But anyways, yeah I don't think AAC works on WM... It would be nice because I'm in the same boat as you.

daryllh · #6 (**permalink**) 10-03-2008, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by land2634

Yeah, I personally don't like the new iTunes...

But anyways, yeah I don't think AAC works on WM... It would be nice because I'm in the same boat as you.

What's strange is that the files played on both players. Granted, for only 3-5 minutes.

I think 30% of my music (90GBs) is AAC. I'd be willing to ditch itunes for WM player but I don't want to covert those songs if I don't have to. Not to mention, I have about a gigs worth of itunes-purchased music in Lossless format.

ny152 · #7 (**permalink**) 10-03-2008, 03:38 PM

try the FREE GSplayer... with the aac plug-in

downloads for player and plugins here:

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA032810/

this is a great player... it's my player of choice for all music and shoutcast on my Touch

elkilla718 · #8 (**permalink**) 11-18-2008, 01:05 AM

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Originally Posted by ny152

try the FREE GSplayer... with the aac plug-in

downloads for player and plugins here:

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA032810/

this is a great player... it's my player of choice for all music and shoutcast on my Touch

I'll be willing to download this as long as I can use TouchFLO 3d to play my AAC tracks. Let me know