AAC Streaming Support

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Reported by: bhulett
Date: 2011-03-01T06:38:24Z
Status: Fix Released
Importance: Wishlist
Launchpad Issue: lp726991
Tags: broadcast

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Just wondering if it's possible in a future release to include AAC as a streaming codec when using the Live Broadcasting feature. I intend to use Mixxx with an internet radio station and it'd be great if this could be added.

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Commented by: rryan
Date: 2011-03-01T06:51:52Z

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Hey Brayden,

Thanks for the request. We'll take a look at what this entails. Today, it's tricky because of codec licensing problems.

Cheers,
RJ Ryan

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Commented by: pwhelan
Date: 2011-03-01T08:20:42Z

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Which specific AAC profile are you hoping for? With the current state of encoders on linux, LE-AAC is less cumbersome to include than HE-AAC (AAC+), at least from a technical standpoint.

Legally we may not be able to use either, at least not without certain workarounds similar to what we do for AAC files now.

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Commented by: raffitea
Date: 2011-03-01T10:42:06Z

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JFYI: libshot2 does not support AAC steaming. We are limited to OGG and MP3.

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Commented by: bhulett
Date: 2011-03-01T16:08:00Z

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Thought that might be the case - however I thought I would bring it to the Team's attention as I am sure it can be done in the future. Re the legality of bundling the AAC codecs in... similar projects (eg eddcast/oddcast provide off-site third party links where the relevant libraries can be downloaded legally. Phillip: Ideally I would be looking to use HE-AAC.. however I could go with either at this point.

Regards,

Brayden Hulett

On 01/03/2011, at 9:42 PM, RAFFI TEA wrote:

JFYI: libshot2 does not support AAC steaming. We are limited to OGG
and MP3.

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Title:
AAC Streaming Support

Status in Mixxx:
Confirmed

Bug description:
Just wondering if it's possible in a future release to include AAC as
a streaming codec when using the Live Broadcasting feature. I intend
to use Mixxx with an internet radio station and it'd be great if this
could be added.

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Commented by: rryan
Date: 2011-03-01T16:20:58Z

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Had never heard of edcast myself. Looks interesting:

http://svn.oddsock.org/public/trunk/edcast/src/
 <http://svn.oddsock.org/public/trunk/edcast/src/>

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Brayden Hulett
<email address hidden>wrote:

Thought that might be the case - however I thought I would bring it to
the Team's attention as I am sure it can be done in the future. Re the
legality of bundling the AAC codecs in... similar projects (eg
eddcast/oddcast provide off-site third party links where the relevant
libraries can be downloaded legally. Phillip: Ideally I would be looking
to use HE-AAC.. however I could go with either at this point.

Regards,

Brayden Hulett

On 01/03/2011, at 9:42 PM, RAFFI TEA wrote:

JFYI: libshot2 does not support AAC steaming. We are limited to OGG
and MP3.

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Title:
AAC Streaming Support

Status in Mixxx:
Confirmed

Bug description:
Just wondering if it's possible in a future release to include AAC as
a streaming codec when using the Live Broadcasting feature. I intend
to use Mixxx with an internet radio station and it'd be great if this
could be added.

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Title:
AAC Streaming Support

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Commented by: esbrandt
Date: 2012-04-07T09:50:23Z

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The libshout fork from the mixlr.com guys might fit in here.
"This fork of libshout 2.2.2 adds support for specifying arbitrary MIME types via shout_set_mime().
This makes it possible to send AAC-encoded audio using a MIME type of "audio/aac" and shout_send_raw()."
https://github.com/mixlr/libshout

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Commented by: Pegasus-RPG
Date: 2012-05-15T17:05:21Z

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Looks like upstream just got a patch for this! https://trac.xiph.org/ticket/1872

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Commented by: rryan
Date: 2013-06-25T19:32:50Z

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I'm taking part in a discussion on icecast-dev about this:
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast-dev/2013-June/002195.html

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Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2017-01-19T13:48:28Z

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There is a libshout version with AAC support
https://github.com/codders/libshout

An another option would be to adopt the Butt source:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/butt/

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Commented by: palakis
Date: 2017-08-22T09:27:38Z

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This is part of my project for Mixxx during Google's Summer of Code. I have an almost complete encoder implementation here (source and discussion) using libfdk-aac: https://github.com/Palakis/mixxx/pull/4
This works for Recording, but Live Broadcasting requires modifications to libshout, as mentioned above.
libfdk-aac is not required at compile and run time. It is dynamically loaded from a version copied to Mixxx's installation (Windows) or available system-wide (Linux, macOS). Mixxx on Windows can even use libfdk-aac provided with Daniel Nöethen's B.U.T.T encoder by automatically detecting its location.

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Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2018-04-21T09:41:25Z

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This could be a nice 2.2 addition.
@stephane: What is left open to merge this?

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Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2018-04-21T09:44:25Z

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The PR has moved to:
#1387

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Commented by: Be-ing
Date: 2021-02-24T18:26:56Z

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#3615

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Issue closed with status Fix Released.