Is aac streaming supported or not?

[Hurdet]

Do it not support aac streaming?
I see tag but not hear.

[ghisler(Author)]

Total Commander uses the Android MediaPlayer control. It supports the following formats:
https://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html

AAC should be supported, but your stream may be using an unsupported format.

[costinm]

Something must be wrong with TC Media Player... I also could not get a single AAC+ stream to work, both on Android 5 and/or 6. It reads the tag, but is not playing. Just displays an error notification.

Al MP3 streams playing nice, but no AAC+. Frustrating, because more and more stations are switching to AAC+. Is there any fix planned? TC Media Player is an excellent internet radio player, once it is playing, high quality with features and lowest power drain.

[ghisler(Author)]

It depends on the device vendor whether they pay AAC+ patent fees and include the AAC+ codec or not.

TC Media Player can only use codecs installed on the device, it doesn't come with its own. If you need this, you have to use a player which comes with its own codecs, like VLC.

[costinm]

I am running an ASUS device ZE500KL. Specified device audio codecs for this model are, quote:

AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
AMR / AMR-NB / GSM-AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate, .amr, .3ga)
eAAC+ / aacPlus v2 / HE-AAC v2
MIDI
MP3 (MPEG-2 Audio Layer II, .mp3)
WMA (Windows Media Audio, .wma)
WAV (Waveform Audio File Format, .wav, .wave)

Can't figure out what's wrong...
Chrome and Firefox browsers are able to play .AAC links directly into location bar. I wonder if they have own codecs or if they use the device codecs.

As I mentioned above, I definitely prefer to use TC MP to any other player.

[ghisler(Author)]

Does TC player play local AAC+ files on your device?

[costinm]

Just tested: TC MP plays AAC files without problems. Not sure about AAC plus, I did not have such a file to try. But so far it played all sorts of media as a file, including all AAC encoded files in different bitrates.

this is an example with an AAC stream (not working with TCMP)
http://s1.viastreaming.net:8100

and the same station with MP3 stream (working ok)
http://s1.viastreaming.net:8000

[ghisler(Author)]

Here you can find more info about the issue:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15225076/android-aac-radio-streaming-doesnt-work-with-mediaplayer-android-4-2-2-sho

Including my own codec isn't feasible. It would cost us several million(!) dollars per year for the installed Total Commander user base.

[costinm]

Ok, so that would mean Chrome, Firefox and virtually each web browser that play AAC+ streams on my phone, pays millions of dollars every year just to do that. Impressive.
Or maybe somehow they use native Android and HTML5 AAC+ support.

Is not that article on Stackoverflow a bit old? It's about Android 4.1 more than 4 years ago...

Thank you for digging into this. Anyway I think AAC streaming will became a must have feature very soon, as so many online radio stations gave up MP3 streaming for AAC+

Regards

[ghisler(Author)]

TC uses the MediaPlayer Android interface. If it would support AAC+, it would play it without any modifications like mp3.

[Renem70]

Total Commander uses the Android MediaPlayer control. It supports the following formats:
https://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html

AAC should be supported, but your stream may be using an unsupported format.

Sorry for responding to an 7 year old topic. But will this ever be implemented in the software? I really want to use the TC Media Player for streaming media but I need AAC+ support.

The stream I want to use is fully working in VLC but not in TC. Since VLC is also freeware I cannot believe that AAC+ support will cost millions of dollars.

[ghisler(Author)]

Google would have to implement it, I can't implement it because the AAC+ codec doesn't support streaming.