On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 20:02 -0700, Craig White wrote: > Admittedly I have mucked around with things. At one time, I did have > rhythmbox playing aac files pulled off my ipod but rhythmbox kept > crashing when my ipod was connected so I have tried various things such > as removing and installing rhythmbox over again and the various > gstreamer files. > > Right now, it will identify and play mp3 files but not m4a (aac files). > > # rpm -qa|grep rhythmbox > rhythmbox-0.8.8-2.1.fc3.rf > > # rpm -qa|grep gstream > gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5-1 > gstreamer-plugins-mp3-0.8.5-0.lvn.2.3 > gstreamer-tools-0.8.7-4.FC3.0 > gstreamer-0.8.7-4.FC3.0 > > # rpm -qa|grep faad > faad2-2.0-4.1.fc3.rf > > xmms will play aac files > > # rpm -qa|grep xmms > xmms-1.2.10-11.1.1.fc3.rf > xmms-aac-2.0-4.1.fc3.rf > xmms-flac-1.1.0-7 > xmms-mp3-1.2.10-11.1.1.fc3.rf > > Any suggestions? You would need the aac gstreamer plugins, but last time I checked, rhythmbox would not play aac files even with them (though totem would). If you played aac in rhythmbox before, was it possibly xine backend?