Unable to rewind, pause playback of AAC files (Version: 1.99.22.20202)

[dethtroll]

Hello!

On my computer, in the current version (1.99.22.20202), when playing AAC files, the rewind and pause buttons/hotkeys stop working after updating WACUP during PC reboot. I rarely reboot my computer and haven't updated WACUP for a long time, so I can't say which version this problem appeared on. As a temporary measure, I plan to downgrade the WACUP version somehow.

Thanks for reading!

[dro]

As part of me moving WACUP away from re-using the handful of the remaining plug-ins from 5.666 to do playback, etc there's been an overall swapping over to WACUP native versions & raw AAC playback was one of those which happened earlier this year.

Seeking in raw AAC is something I've still to implement (which'll have to be a crude brute forcing since such files aren't really designed for nice seeking like AAC in an MP4 container) though pausing should be working. You could try setting AAC back into the in_mp3 config but I can't guarantee that'll work due to other things in my core that control which input plug-in is going to be used for various file formats.

[dethtroll]

Ok, I understand. Good luck with the implementation

And could you tell if there is a way to just install the previous version? I searched the Changelogs page, but there are no links to previous versions. I tried to substitute the version number in the link to the current build, but this method did not work either

[dro]

The changelog pages don't link to the builds as those are mostly the beta to beta build changelogs & I don't openly provide them (even though the preview builds are just public beta builds).

The preview download page has links back to prior preview builds & those for now still have old build links.

Also you've referenced the x64 preview build & that can't do my in_mp3 suggestion as it's pure wacup & cannot load any winamp plug-ins since it can't use x86 / 32-bit dlls.

[dethtroll]

Thanks a lot!
I figured out the structure of the preview build pages. I will try to install the previous versions for now.

To be honest, I did not understand how to use the in_mp3 configuration. As far as I understood, this is the name of a dll library, and it should be configured in a special way to play AAC files. I searched on Google how to do this, but I did not find where to apply this setting.

Actually while I was writing this message I was looking in Preferences window for a proper way to configure the in_mp3 library and found Plug-ins section, and then the in_mp3 plugin in it. So I added ACC to the list of file associations, and now seek/pause in ACC files works fine. On build 1.99.22.20202 without downgrading.

Thanks again for your help!

[dro]

That's good to know & saves me testing things tomorrow if it's working ok for you with the in_mp3 suggestion.

When in_mp3 is finally dropped I should have gotten my handling to be equivalent for local AAC & you shouldn't notice a difference 🤞 Though I still think it's better if possible to get them into a container format like MP4.

[dethtroll]

After the latest update, the player completely stopped playing AAC files. I followed your advice from your last message and packaged them into an MP4 container — WACUP started playing them. Thank you.

However, the problem is that I synchronize music folders across different devices, and such conversion would break the tracking of playback history and the registration time of files in the media library. Could you please let me know when the native AAC playback functionality will be restored?

[dro]

22656 is still able to play raw .aac files from a quick re-test under both x86 & x64 builds with wacup's in_mp4 present. in_mp3 per the earlier comments in this thread is being phased out so that workaround is now unlikely to work with core changes made since. So I can't restore something that is still there & appears to be working (with the known caveat that seeking doesn't work since I just haven't bothered looking at brute force seeking in the files). Maybe you've changed what input plug-ins are present / installed (e.g. in_mp4 being disabled for in_dshow to handle things with external codecs) which is then breaking the core doing the extension look-up.