AAC won't play anymore

[Michele64]

Steps to reproduce the problem

Try to play any aac file

What's going on? Describe the problem in as much detail as possible.

ERROR: could not load: /somefile.aac failed to add file or folder /somefile.aac

Information about the software:

Deadbeef version: 1.8.7 OS: xubuntu 20.10

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

Can't reproduce

[Michele64]

Sorry, but I still cannot play aac files. What kind of information can I provide?

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

Most likely you are not using the official build of deadbeef, and the one you are using doesn't include AAC support. You can either decide to start using the official build, or you could contact the person who created the build your are using, and ask them to include AAC support.

[Michele64]

I'm using this one: ppa:starws-box/deadbeef-player is that wrong?

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

Not wrong, just unofficial. Anyone can take source code, build it, and put it on the internet. But as you found out, it can't play AAC. I believe, changing to using an official build from deadbeef website should solve this.

[Michele64]

hmm, did that (running sudo dpkg -i ./deadbeef-static_1.8.7-1_amd64.deb), same error

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

Are you sure that you are running the one you installed from /opt/deadbeef/bin?

[Michele64]

positive, I previously uninstalled the one from the ppa

[Michele64]

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

can you please post the full log after running this command in console?

/opt/deadbeef/bin/deadbeef

[Michele64]

starting deadbeef 1.8.7 [static] server_start searching for GUI plugins in /home/michele/.local/lib64/deadbeef searching for GUI plugins in /home/michele/.local/lib/deadbeef load_plugin_dir /home/michele/.local/lib/deadbeef: scandir found 6 files searching for GUI plugins in /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef load_plugin_dir /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef: scandir found 55 files found gui plugin ddb_gui_GTK2.so added GTK2 gui plugin found gui plugin ddb_gui_GTK3.so added GTK3 gui plugin load gui plugin checking GUI plugin: GTK2 checking GUI plugin: GTK3 found selected GUI plugin: GTK3 loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/ddb_gui_GTK3.so loading plugins from /home/michele/.local/lib64/deadbeef loading plugins from /home/michele/.local/lib/deadbeef load_plugin_dir /home/michele/.local/lib/deadbeef: scandir found 6 files loading plugin /home/michele/.local/lib/deadbeef/ddb_infobar.so dlopen error: /home/michele/.local/lib/deadbeef/ddb_infobar.so: falsche ELF-Klasse: ELFCLASS32 trying /home/michele/.local/lib/deadbeef/ddb_infobar.fallback.so... plugin ddb_infobar.so not found or failed to load loading plugin /home/michele/.local/lib/deadbeef/ddb_lyrics.so loading plugin /home/michele/.local/lib/deadbeef/ddb_misc_waveform_GTK3.so loading plugin /home/michele/.local/lib/deadbeef/rating.so loading plugins from /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef load_plugin_dir /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef: scandir found 55 files loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/aac.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/adplug.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/alac.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/alsa.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/artwork.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/cdda.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/converter.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/converter_gtk2.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/converter_gtk3.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/dca.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/ddb_dumb.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/ddb_mono2stereo.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/ddb_shn.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/ddb_soundtouch.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/dsp_libsrc.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/ffap.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/ffmpeg.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/flac.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/gme.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/hotkeys.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/in_sc68.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/lastfm.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/m3u.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/mms.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/mp3.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/musepack.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/notify.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/nullout.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/opus.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/oss.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/pltbrowser_gtk2.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/pltbrowser_gtk3.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/psf.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/pulse.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/rg_scanner.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/shellexec.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/shellexecui_gtk2.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/shellexecui_gtk3.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/sid.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/sndfile.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/supereq.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/tta.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/vfs_curl.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/vfs_zip.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/vorbis.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/vtx.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/wavpack.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/wildmidi.so loading plugin /opt/deadbeef/lib/deadbeef/wma.so starting plugin GTK3 user interface starting plugin Lyrics starting plugin Waveform Seekbar starting plugin Song Rating starting plugin AAC player starting plugin Adplug player starting plugin ALAC player starting plugin ALSA output plugin starting plugin Album Artwork starting plugin Audio CD player starting plugin Converter starting plugin Converter GTK2 UI starting plugin Converter GTK3 UI starting plugin dts decoder starting plugin DUMB module player starting plugin Mono to stereo starting plugin Shorten player starting plugin Soundtouch starting plugin Resampler (Secret Rabbit Code) starting plugin Monkey's Audio (APE) decoder starting plugin FLAC decoder starting plugin Game-Music-Emu player starting plugin Hotkey manager starting plugin SC68 player (Atari ST SNDH YM2149) starting plugin last.fm scrobbler starting plugin M3U and PLS support starting plugin mms vfs starting plugin MP3 player starting plugin MusePack decoder starting plugin OSD Notify starting plugin Null output plugin starting plugin Opus player starting plugin OSS output plugin starting plugin Playlist browser GTK2 starting plugin Playlist browser GTK3 starting plugin PSF player using Audio Overload SDK starting plugin PulseAudio output plugin starting plugin ReplayGain Scanner starting plugin Shell commands starting plugin Shellexec GTK2 UI starting plugin Shellexec GTK3 UI starting plugin SID player starting plugin WAV/PCM player starting plugin SuperEQ starting plugin tta decoder starting plugin cURL vfs starting plugin ZIP vfs starting plugin Ogg Vorbis decoder starting plugin VTX player starting plugin WavPack decoder starting plugin WildMidi player starting plugin WMA player starting plugin stdio vfs starting plugin FFMPEG audio player selected output plugin: ALSA output plugin INFO: from file /home/michele/.config/deadbeef/playlists/0.dbpl INFO: from file /home/michele/.config/deadbeef/playlists/1.dbpl convgui: gtkui plugin not found plugin Converter GTK2 UI failed to connect to dependencies, deactivated. plugin Playlist browser GTK2 failed to connect to dependencies, deactivated. shellexecui: can't find gtkui plugin plugin Shellexec GTK2 UI failed to connect to dependencies, deactivated. gtkui plugin compiled for gtk version: 3.10.8

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

I can't see any problems in the log, everything looks good. How do you open the file? Is it some specific AAC file, or any file? Does it work with AAC files in MP4 container?

[Michele64]

by default association or per drag n drop. IO just tried an mkv container with aac audio and that does nothing, no output and no error messages

[Michele64]

I just extracted the audio fromm an mkv video and that file wors immediately without any errors! should I send you a file in question?

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

deadbeef doesn't support mkv, so it's not a very convincing test :)

when you extracted the file -- is it a raw aac, or an mp4?

[Michele64]

I tried another file, mp4 and it works flawlessly. I'm suspecting something is wrong with my audio only files. They are recorded calls from my phone, can I send one for further investigations?

[Michele64]

The fille specs are: 16kHz mono

[Michele64]

I just downgrades deadbeef to 1.8.4-1 and that version plays everything just fine. Then I tried Version 1.8.6-1 and it stops working. Does that help?

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

Yes, it would help a lot if you could send a test file. There were quite many changes in the AAC decoder in 1.8.6, which should not affect raw AAC files, but they greatly affect the AAC in MP4 container.

[Michele64]

There you go :-) 2021-02-18 15.37.32 ↓ +491628521359.aac.zip

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

Thanks, I will look into it as soon as I can

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

Bug confirmed. The file is mp4 container renamed to have .aac file extension.

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

The issue has been resolved. Thanks for helping and collaborating. The test file has helped a lot -- it's contained some data configuration which I didn't encounter before. To get the fix, you'll need to update to the latest build from master branch when it's ready (takes about 20 minutes) https://sourceforge.net/projects/deadbeef/files/travis/linux/master/

[Michele64]

that's wonderful! But when trying to install it shows an error (sorry it's in german):

dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten des Archivs /media/michele/Data/Downloads/deadbeef-static_devel-1_amd64.deb (--install): Parsen der Datei »/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control«, nahe Zeile 1: (near line 1) Feld »Version« Wert »devel-1«: Versionsnummer beginnt nicht mit einer Ziffer (Version number does not start with a digit)

[Oleksiy-Yakovenko]

I think you can't install this deb.. since it doesn't have a version number. You will either have to build it yourself, or use this one: https://sourceforge.net/projects/deadbeef/files/travis/linux/master/deadbeef-static_devel-1_x86_64.tar.bz2/download