Impossible to read music with an IPod when the source file is an OGG file

[Arnaud Dessein]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

I have converted MP3 files into OGG files using xcfa. I have checked they are readable with Rhythmbox.
But when I upload them to my IPOD nano, they can not be read : my IPOD skip them as if they were empty or unreadable.
Maybe the problem comes from the automatic conversion into MP3 before uploading into the IPOD...

Version : rhythmbox 0.11.5-0ubuntu6
Ubuntu 8.04

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 7 00:47:46 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
Package: rhythmbox 0.11.5-0ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, are you sure it's not converting those to aac? there is some bugs about that being broken already

[Arnaud Dessein (arnaud.dessein)]

In fact I do not know what rhythmbox does when I drag and drop an OGG file to my IPOD, I guess it converts the file because if I have well understood, an IPOD does not support other formats than MP3. It is why I think the problem comes from here.

I will try to figure out what is the format of the file once it is uploaded to the IPOD but I do not know how to do it...

Do you need further information ?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you can run rhythmbox -d and look at the log or browse the ipod using nautilus

[Arnaud Dessein (arnaud.dessein)]

You are right, the files I can not read with my Ipod are converted into MPEG-4 AAC audio files (.mp4), I have browsed my Ipod with Nautilus. All those files have the comment "Lavf1d.51.10.0", maybe it is the name of the converting program.

Then, have I reported a bug already known ? In this case feel free to delete my bug report and good luck for solving the problem, I hope the fix will be available soon :D.

Thank you.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.