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EasyTag with AAC support, for Dapper

Published October 8th, 2006 in Code

What a PITA. EasyTag in Dapper can’t edit tag information for .m4a (AAC) files, nor can you easily compile a version that can edit tag info, because the version of libmp4v2 in the repositories is too old. Debian has an easytag-aac package, but you can’t install or use it on Dapper because it’s system library dependencies are too new.

Fortunately, I wasted an hour of my life and resolved this by downloading a new version of the MPEG4 IP package, building the libmp4v2 part, installing it, and then rebuilding easytag with –enable-mp4.

Since libmp4v2 is also used by gstreamer for AAC playback, and I wasn’t convinced that it was sufficiently backward compatible, I hacked up the linking step of easytag’s build so that it statically links libmp4v2. The resulting easytag can run on Dapper, and edit .m4a tag information.

So come and get it:

EasyTag with AAC support for Dapper

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  1. 1 samwise Jan 6th, 2007 at 10:04 am

    Hi,

    Thanks muchly for this. I’m running Kubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10) and was able to just drop your binary over the top of the non-M4A/AAC version in /usr/bin that was installed by the package from the main ubuntu repositories.

    It’s a really annoying omission from the PLF ubuntu archives …

    Many thanks!

    Sam.

  2. 2 fartymenams Jun 5th, 2007 at 9:03 am

    Google sent me here. Thanks for posting the Easytag binary — I tried somewhat unsuccessfully to get it compiled myself, so glad you’d done it.

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