Hi all. I've been playing with amaroK for a couple of weeks and I absolutely love it however I found a problem (bug?): amaroK fails to read most of the tags of my itunes encoded aac files. It fails to retrieve the cover on some files and the genre in most of them. I tried to edit the tags to correct the missing genres but amaroK complains with "sorry the tag for file XXXXXXXXX.m4a can not be changed"

Does anyone has any idea what's going on here?

The version I'm using is amaroK 1.4.0 running on kubuntu dapper.

Thanks

I get the same error... fortunately I don't have many on MP4/AAC format.  You may want to try gtkpod to modify those parameters.  I've used Easytag before to change multiple aac files with success...

BunBU wrote:Hi all. I've been playing with amaroK for a couple of weeks and I absolutely love it however I found a problem (bug?): amaroK fails to read most of the tags of my itunes encoded aac files. It fails to retrieve the cover on some files and the genre in most of them. I tried to edit the tags to correct the missing genres but amaroK complains with "sorry the tag for file XXXXXXXXX.m4a can not be changed"

Does anyone has any idea what's going on here?

The version I'm using is amaroK 1.4.0 running on kubuntu dapper.

Thanks

Amarok has to be built with support from external libraries for m4a tag writing support to work.

Hi  - I'm fairly new to Linux and LOVE Amarok, but would like to be able to edit M4A / AAC tags

Can anyone provide some instructions on how to configure or build Amarok to support M4A tag writing ??

(I have a standard Kubuntu Dapper install, and lots of AAC files from a Mac - Amarok doesn't read the "Genre" for these files nor can I edit the tags. I have checked file permissions).

Thanks !

Simon

Hi!  I'm having exactly the same problem!

I installed Amarok 1.4.1 via the Kubuntu repositories, and am using the xine engine.  No problems playing m4a's, mp3's ogg etc, and can edit mp3 and ogg tags, just not m4a's.

Has anyone solved this particular problem yet? There must be many people out there with aac (m4a) collections.

Cheers!

Amarok has to be built with support from external libraries for m4a tag writing support to work.


What does that mean?

Should support for m4a tag writing work, If I download the source and configure/make it with the following options:

  $ ./configure --enable-mysql --with-helix --with-libnjb --with-libgpod --with-mp4v2 --with-ifp

Like other users on the thread, which seems to have no successful conclusion, my version of Amarok does not allow modification of the Genre tag on .m4a files.  I've used both the kubunu (7.04) supplied version 1.4.5 and a freshly compiled version of 1.4.5 and both give the tag edit error.  File plays fine, but the Genre tag is blank, which means, of course, that the files don't show up in the right place in the Collection browser.