[Q] AAC / M4A files - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

For some reason, no music player (stock, winamp, doubletwist etc.) seems to be able to play either aac or m4a files despite the S3 ostensibly supporting them.
Any thoughts? I've spotted some ICS related bugs elsewhere, but nothing that would seem to fix my problems.

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media player wont play any files

hi all,
i just got my xda and im still learning how to use all of its features, i read that wma files should work in the media player but when i open the video it says 'windows media cannot play this file'
any ideas anybody? as the media player was one of the main reasons for buying this phone
cheers steve
i tried downloading and using 'pocketmusic' and when i go to find media files it doesnt pickup anything other than mp3 and the original media player video
i also tried a new rom and still no joy
best player
http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=1080
im still no closer to playing media files with media player
my media player is version 8.5 build 12177
i have tried all media types, it plays music fine but wont play any mwa wma mpeg avi files at all
ive tried installing other media players and the same problem occurs, it comes up with a message saying something along the lines of, there are no programs associated with that file type
i also installed a newer upto date rom and it made no difference
can anybody help, i really am out of ideas
What rom version are you at. I have the same problem and I'm at A.30.09. I started to have this problem after i upgrade from PPC2002. Hopefully we can find a solution.

playing .qcp audio files?

I was wondering if anyone knows how to restore the ability to play an MMS message with an audio file attached to it with the extension of .qcp....
I know I can do a hard reset, but I'd rather not do that.... I have uninstalled and re-installed GC's MMS cab, uninstalled all youtube players and reinstalled. Uninstalled anything I thought might have conflicted with any audio setting.... nothing has worked so far.....
Thanks
Az
OK - It seems that I cannot play .qcp files on DCD3.3.4 (nothing installed but the rom, not even the carrier cab), but it does play on DCD 3.2.6 in the same condition( nothing installed).....
DCD, any ideas what is causing this issue???
There are two main ways to successfully play QCP files: one way is to find a QCP player like PureVoice Player from Qualcomm; another way is to convert QCP to more popular audio format like MP3, WAV, WMA, AC3, M4A and etc.
Detailed info at How to Play QCP files on Windows Media Player, Mac, iTunes, iPod?

[Q] Anyone else having problems with the stock Vibrant Video Player?

Hey guys,
So I was wondering if anyone else thinks the video player on the Vibrant is really lacking in terms of functionality. The device says that it can play .avi files (and then some) but when I download files from my PC to the phone (I transferred a few episodes of The Simpsons and Pixar's UP), it simply says "Unsupported Filed Type".
Does anyone else have this problem? I've also tried downloading official .divx files (movie trailers) from divx.com that I know should work on the Vibrant, but it still doesn't.
Now, I've downloaded RockPlayer and all those files that couldn't be played with the stock video player now plays perfectly. Now, what am I missing here? It's not an issue with my particular phone right? Additionally, if the phone is marketed as a multimedia phone that supports a wide variety of file types, it kind of sucks that it can't even play on the stock video player.
[PS. The files I transferred to my phone can play fine on a PS3, so the format should be correct, I believe]
Often the issue is a particular encoding or the resolution is too high. I use MediaCoder to do my conversions, because Rockplayer freezes occasionally on me.
The avi files in PC (usually downloaded from torrents) tend to be encoded with special codecs and not all players can play it. Even in the PC, if you don't have VLC player, some times they don't play in computer itself...
Convert them to supported formats before copying them to mobile.

[Q] WMA Support?

So I haven't had any luck getting WMA lossless files to play on the 4.0. The vendor descriptions all state WMA support but the manual doesn't mention WMA. When I try to play any of my WMA files I get a "Sorry, the player does not support this type of audio file" message. I've tried with the file on both the internal memory and on the SD card with no luck.
Has anyone else run into this? Thanks in advance for everyone's help.
Andrew
Either use another media player app or convert your WMA files to a type that is more widely supported. Personally, unless you own a Zune, there should be no reason to keep your audio in WMA, especially since the Galaxy player handles FLAC all day long without issue. Not to mention that if the SGP is capable of playing WMA, your files are most likely DRM'd, which would be throwing that error.
yeah i would recommend converting your music to mp3. wma has very limited suport and why waste space on your device just for an app that will play a few files?
just google "wma to mp3 converter", there are many free programs that will easily convert your files.

[Q] aac audiobook player?

I'm on GN - 4.0.2. I've got audio books in .aac files.
I know aac is an accepted format on 4.0+, but I can't find a player that will play them. They require .m4a.
So two questions:
1. is there a audiobook player for .aac files?
2. is there a better site/forum for audio book issues? mobileread seems only to deal with ebooks.
sean
Have you tried Audiobook Player 2 (by Fredrik Maelstrom) in the market? I just tried it now and it seems to play my .m4a files just fine.
EDIT: Link added https://market.android.com/details?id=com.frma.audioBookPlayer2&hl=en
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
Yes, it plays m4a - but I'm looking for a ".aac" player.
I couldn't get it to play aac files. Can you?

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