Idea #5655: Monkey audio support in downloadable codec pack for Totem

Written by steve196 the 25 Mar 08 at 01:27. Category: Multimedia.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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I know, that Monkey audio is an unnecessary format, because flac already does the same thing. But occasionally files happen to be monkey audio. Currently there is no way to play them without running Windows software through wine.
Afaik, there is some problem with the monkey audio license, so it will not be on the cd, but it would be nice to have it in the restricted codec packs.

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Eldmannen wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 01:53

Monkey's Audio is proprietary and nobody uses it.
So there are no reasons to support it just many reasons not to support it.

Auzy wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 01:59

I see no harm adding it to the restricted codec packs. Even if only 2 users use it, its been worth it then.

+1

XSP wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 02:59

FFMPEG handles Monkey... That sounds wrong.

There are several tools for Monkey audio in Linux. There is an XMMS plugin, there is MAC, the Monkey Audio Codec for Linux, K3B can convert them to FLAC.

Search google for: mac-3.99-u4-b5-s4.tar.gz

fragro wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 08:37

Use FLAC!

steve196 wrote on the 25 Mar 08 at 12:53

@XSP: The mac thing works in dapper but not in newer versions. The players mentioned on the ffmpeg homepage cannot play monkey.
@fragro:In the future please read posts COMPLETELY before replying to them. This is annoying.

toobuntu wrote on the 8 Apr 08 at 19:45

Monkey's Audio has been open source for some time now....

gmeier wrote on the 6 May 08 at 20:54

Right, it is not GPL, but it should be ok.
http://www.monkeysaudio.com/license.html

steve196, it works for me in hoary using Audacious.

Anyway, it would be nice, to have more players supported.

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