AAC on Linux - anything more convenient than Rhythmbox? as it apparently can't deal with track numbers of AAC files

[IanM]

Has anyone got a good way to manage AAC files on Linux? I'm using Fedora 12 (with GNOME) and I'd like a convenient way to manage my ipod nano. Soundconverter seems OK for making AAC from FLAC files, but Rhythmbox doesn't read the track numbers when you import AAC - it's a real PITA because albums get resorted alphabetically.
 
Development of Songbird for Linux has been abandoned so I'm not sure what else there is?

 

[rawrster]

So are you asking for a media player that plays aac or something that you can use along with sorting out your ipod nano?
 
If it's just the media player( since all my recent daps have been drag and drop) MPD + the gui client of your choice should work.

 

[IanM]

I guess I'm after a media player and iTunes alternative to manage syncing the ipod.
 
I can play the AAC files just fine in Rhythmbox, it's just that they are always out of order. Drag 'n' drop tracks or albums between devices will work too, but limited to alphabetical sorting. The problem seems to be Rhythmbox doesn't support the tags on AAC files, as far as I can tell it's just because AAC is anathema to the open source community and the developers of Rhythmbox won't support it, they'd prefer everyone to use OGG instead.
 
I just thought 320kbps AAC is probably going to be a good compromise between sound quality, compression and compatibility with most DAPs. I'll take a closer look at MPD and see what's in the Fedora / RPM Fusion repositories.
 

 

[brandnewgame]

SoundKonverter is useful for converting. For a GUI based player, I think QuodLibet is very user friendly and allows you to find music very quickly. I don't use it at the moment as I have over 1 terrabyte of FLACs on a slow network share and it scans changes to your library on each start. When I had a sensible amount of music on a USB hard disk, it was really pleasant to use

 Now I use mocp (music on console) which is very simple, yet more than enough for what I need.
 
Edit: Also, LAME is a very mature encoder, moreso than then the free software AAC encoder. I read that the results are very similar between the two.