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i have all the faad codecs installed and gstreamer bad, good, ugly, and base (tainted repo).. i can play m4a files but the formats not available in soundconverter anymore.. available formats are ogg, mp3, flac, ms wave, opus, and gnome audio profile.. so where's aac?

faad is only the decoder, you need faac and libflac if you want to encode something.

libflac++6, libflac8, flac, and gstreamer flac are installed already..nothing comes up in repos for "faac".. i installed the same plugins that i installed in mageia 1 and 2 to make it work and now the format doesn't show up in soundconverter....i searched the forum for info and found nothing, maybe it's a bug in soundconverter 2.0.4..

flac is something different, check https://xiph.org/flac/
You need faac, see https://github.com/HessiJames/soundkonv ... ot_m4a_aac
faac has been dropped due to various reasons, and soundkonverter has probably not been ported to vo-aacenc yet.

You may need to use another converter.

ok i'll do that..appreciate the info + help doktor..

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [DONE], thanks

ok..are they going to ever put faac back in repo's? it's in other current distro's why doesn't it work in our distro?

Well it does work in our distro, it's just not in the repositories provided by Mageia. For background information check https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1730#c4
For other distributions it's also only contained in community repos, check e.g. pkgs.org.

If you really want/need it you can rebuild e.g. the Fedora or Rosa packages.

wish mageia would of made a repo for it so it was atleast optional...i don't know how to rebuild package's, that's why i use mageia every things there and simple to learn...rebuilding packages requires command line which i barely use in less it's basic stuff..thank you for the info...i'll see if a friend can rebuild it for me..