iTunes Shared Libraries and ALAC

[tehabe]

In the Bugreporter you can read that you can't use ALAC files created with Rip with the sharing feature of iTunes. Maybe it will be fixed, maybe not.

But it is also important to "repair" the old files already in your iTunes collection. One way to do this is the following:

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for f in *.m4a; do ffmpeg -acodec copy -i "$f" "x_${f%.m4a}.m4a"; done

It creates new files with x_ in the beginning. I'm still working on a automatic way to delete the old files and replace them with the new ones without the need for reimporting them into iTunes.

You need ffmpeg for this and you need to keep in mind, that the cover art is not copied into the new file.

[tehabe]

I changed my way of fixing this bug for existing ALAC files by using mp4box instead of ffmpeg. I hope sbooth fixes this little bug in the next (beta) release. This has the advantage that no new file is created. I haven't test it yet, but in the bug report mp4box is recommended to fix ALAC files. I assume they should work with DAAP now.

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for f in *.m4a; do mp4box -inter 0 "$f"; done

Disadvantage is, you have to go through every directory manually. I created this mdfind line, which should take care of all ALAC files in ~/Music/iTunes Music.

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mdfind -onlyin ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music -0 "kMDItemCodecs == 'Apple Lossless'" | xargs -0 -I % mp4box -inter 0 %

[randian]

What bug are you referring to?

[tehabe]

What bug are you referring to?

This one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/rip/+bug/452114