Hi

I\'m a Linux newbie and would like some basic advice from you gurus !

I\'ve been waiting for Amarok 1.4 for ages - it\'s superb !! I have lots of AAC / M4A files I want to play and re-tag them using amaroK.

** Can anyone recommend a user-freindly Linux distro that fully supports amaroK AND allows playing AND tag changing of AAC / M4A files ?? **

I\'ve tried Kubuntu and I can;t seem to get amaroK 1.4b1 to read all the AAC / M4A tags properly - it\'s missing some fields of a large number of music files which I know are there.

I\'m quite happy to re-install any complete Linux distro that will work on my older PC. (PIII 700MHz 50GB + 200GB HDD)

Thanks in advance
Simon

You could try Vector Linux and tell me how it works for you.
Seriously, never tried it but the next time my Gentoo install is fracked up (can happen tomorrow or in a year) I will try it. Vector Linux is said to be quite fast for older hardware like yours, try the SOHO edition.

Bye, Val.

firstly, you will need to get teh player engine to read the aac files, which has nothing to do with amaroK

I am using Ubuntu and amaroK 1.4b2

i only recently converted to linux and found amarok. but previous versions could play my AAC files, because i had xine setup to play them, but amarok couldn\'t add the files to the collection, because it couldn\'t read the metatags

that has changed with the newest beta, now you can add them, you just gotta get xine (or helix) to play em.

if you use ubunu, you can get a script utility called automatix (i think there is a version for kubuntu as well). if you run that script, it should set the xine engine up for you, then you will be able to play aac/m4a just fine.