Anyone use foobar?

[Cream Soda]

I could have sworn it had an apple lossless plugin, but I can't find it anywhere.

Anyone know where I can pick it up?

[hey]

It can play alac out of the box.

[Cream Soda]

Hmmm it's not playing mine, though it's not alac, it's .m4a and gives an error when trying to play

(Unsupported format or corrupted file (invalid or incomplete data)):

[Elizara]

I did a search about *.m4a and foobar, seems this is a very common issue. I don't know why, sometimes it's blamed on drm. (I'm a winamp user; custom install to avoid weird toolbars. No problems playing anything, and I also use the classic skin on that.)

You can try looking at the official site for a drop in that'd enable it, but I'm first to admit this is out of my depth. I assume you already have either Itunes or The CCCP or The Shark's Codecs or something of that nature, tho if foobar is like VLC, external codecs may be no help...

[orinthia]

Mind posting the file that won't play? Would make it easier to find out why.

I use foobar exclusively, though don't really run across different formats than mp3, flac, or audio ripped from mkv/mp4 containers (.mka, useful for stripping the audio out of an mp4 downloaded off youtube to prevent transcoding losses). MKVMerge is what I use for this, though foobar does play mp4/mkv flatout as audio of the ones I've tried.

[Cream Soda]

http://www.mediafire.com/?yea901fo217dheh and every song in its album

[Meresgi]

I use VLC and K-lite codec package and can play goddamn near anything I dreg up on the internet in either media player or VLC.

[orinthia]

You're right, that will not play in foobar, at least as of v1.1.2. It refuses to acknowledge it's even a file to be played if it has .aac extension. I was able to play this with windows media player and media player classic; I have some specific codecs installed that may be allowing this. The suggestion above for CCCP should probably work to let your WMP or MPC play it. With that you could probably find a way to transcode these.

Using mediatab, it dumped this info about the file. Looks like it was dumped through iTunes. I've never used iTunes before, so I don't know if it has options to transcode files (probably not).
(lol at the desc)

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===================== General =====================
Complete name               : C:\01 Satsuki Ame.m4a
Format                      : MPEG-4
Format profile              : Apple audio with iTunes info
Codec Id                    : M4A 
File size                   : 9.13 MB
Duration (ms)               : 4mn 43s
OverallBitRate_Mode/String  : Variable
Total bitrate               : 270 Kbps
Album                       : Satsuki Ame (?????)
Album/Performer             : BENI
Track name                  : Satsuki Ame (?????; Early Summer Rain)
Track position              : 1
Total tracks                : 4
Performer                   : BENI
Genre                       : R&B
Recorded_Date               : UTC 2013-04-24 07:00:00
Encoded date                : UTC 1971-05-14 23:16:29
Tagged date                 : UTC 2013-04-23 13:59:51
Copyright                   : ? 2013 NAYUTAWAVE RECORDS, a division of UNIVERSAL MUSIC LLC
Cover                       : Yes
Comment                     : http://youshikibi.com/
desc                        : Credits to PMZ.asia IF U REUPLOAD YOU MOTHER WILL "XI" IN THE "LIN13 "
tvsn                        : 0
tves                        : 0
cnID                        : 631896395
apID                        : [email protected]
purd                        : 2013-04-23 14:13:13
stik                        : 1
iTunMOVI                    : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> / <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> / <plist version="1.0"> / <dict> / 	<key>asset-info</key> / 	<dict> / 		<key>file-size</key> / 		<integer>10042203</integer> / 		<key>flavor</key> / 		<string>HQ</string> / 	</dict> / </dict> / </plist>
rtng                        : 0
atID                        : 290868758
cmID                        : 325559382
plID                        : 631896246
geID                        : 27
sfID                        : 143462
rndu                        : 0
rpdu                        : 0
xid                         : Universal:isrc:JPPO01332687
flvr                        : HQ
tvsh                        : PMZ.asia
tven                        : PMZ.asia
sonm                        : PMZ.asia
soal                        : PMZ.asia
soar                        : PMZ.asia
soaa                        : PMZ.asia
soco                        : PMZ.asia
sosn                        : PMZ.asia

===================== Audio =====================
Id                          : 1
Format                      : AAC
Format info                 : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile              : LC
Codec Id                    : 40
Duration (ms)               : 4mn 43s
Bitrate mode                : Variable
Bitrate                     : 256 Kbps
Bitrate maximum             : 394 Kbps
Channel(s)                  : 2 channels
ChannelPositions            : Front: L R
Sampling rate               : 44.1 KHz
Compression_Mode/String     : Lossy
Stream size                 : 9.00 MB (99%)
Language                    : English
Encoded date                : UTC 1971-05-14 23:16:29
Tagged date                 : UTC 2013-04-23 13:59:51