Bug#703732: faad fails to gaplessly decode itunes, nero, fraunhofer aac

[Fabian Greffrath]

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Am Freitag, den 22.03.2013, 21:43 +0000 schrieb Julian Hughes:
> The same problem is in any application which decodes with unpatched 
> libfaad2. I notice Rockbox has patched libfaad and their version
> properly decodes aac/m4a regardless of which encoder was used.  The
> same files which don't decode gaplessly on my PC with faad or libfaad 
> do decode gaplessly on my portable running Rockbox.  I believe

Dear Julian.

thank you very much for your bug report. Is there any specific patch
that Rockbox applied to their local copy of libfaad that you could
identify to fix the issue? I have seen that Rockbox at least manage
their source in GIT but unfortunately apply patches directly to the
sources of their local library copies instead of keeping separate
patches around.

> Squeezebox also patch libfaad to do the same but I can't confirm it
> works.

In the past I have already forwarded some of the Squeezebox patches to
FAAD upstream. There is still a lack of reaction towards a patch that
adds ALAC support, but the others have been accepted and applied. AFAICT
a patch addressing gapless playback was not among them, though. Anyway,
I think this bug report is already correctly tagged "upstream", since
this is where the issue should get fixed in the first place.

Cheers,
 - Fabian