Ripping to m4a format produces files that cannot be played by VLC and Rhythmbox

[Bruce Culbertson]

I used bugzilla to file a bug against sound-juicer. The sound-juicer team debugged the problem and sent me the following note:

"This is a bug in gstreamer that has been fixed in version 1.3.91. Bruce you could trying filing a ubuntu bug to see if they will patch gstreamer for you (commit e8d176c for gst-plugins-base)."

According to the sound-juicer debuggers, an m4a file is produced that is nearly correct, differing from a playable m4a at only a handful of byte locations.

This bug matters to me because I cannot use Rhythmbox (which uses sound-juicer) to rip CDs to m4a, one of the most common and efficient audio formats.

Thanks for your help.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: sound-juicer 3.5.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-30.55-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-30-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Jul 11 10:58:00 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/sound-juicer
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-25 (77 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: sound-juicer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Travis (wilson0028)]

I can verify that I cannot rip CDs to m4a in Rhythmbox (Ubuntu 14.04), changing status to confirmed.

[Travis (wilson0028)]

When I say cannot, I mean the file is created, but corrupted.

[William Smith (wrsmith-y)]

mplayer, vlc, and MP4Box all say that the files are missing the moov atom or that it is an invalid Isomedia file.

[BertN45 (bertnijhof)]

I can't rip file to the correct m4a format in rhytmbox. The file can't be played by any program including Windows Media Player