I ripped my one of my coltrain CD's w/ EAC using ItunesEncode ( bitrate setting in itunes:224 kbps, which for some reason is not VBR compatible)' but I get this error from foobar: "MP4: unable to find correct sound track in the MP4 file.".

It should be noted that foobar has played AAC files encoded via iTunes (w/ out EAC) before.

Any thoughts?

Jonathan

try either reencoding the file or reinstalling foobar

I don't get it.
I've ripped the same file with iTunes, and it works great' but using eac I get that annoying error. Maybe my EAC defenitions are not right, but if so, I'm not sure what they should be.

Make sure that you don't have EAC setup to add ID3 tags to the files. It will quite happily add ID3 tags to an M4A file, thus breaking it, if you have that option turned on.

Indeed it was.
But what do you mean by "breaking the file"?

thanks,
Jonathan

i would assume it simply makes the file unreadable... you will need to reencode the file w/o eac's tagging.

EAC will write ID3v2 tags to exe files if you tell it to. Obviously this causes problems on things that should not contain ID3 tags.

My thought is that you have one of the most awesome login names ever.

Sorry for the off-topicness but I couldn't let it pass...

The title of your post says it all: "foobar won't play..."

Adding tags to a file changes that file. If you change the file in an invalid way, you now have an invalid file. If the file is invalid, then it ain't gonna play.

Not a terribly hard concept here.

You were saying?

Uhm... That's not something people would usually want to advertise.

Maybe he's a Blue Book standard. As in "Compact Dick Extra".