Player won't play aac streams (no sound) on Pie

[mackeev]

TC media player (latest beta) produces no sound while playing aac streams from the Internet (like this one: http://ice1.somafm.com/lush-128-aac)
It shows some traffic activity (at right speed), but no sound.
OS: custom Pie (Liquid Remix).

[ghisler(Author)]

It depends on the installed codecs - TC uses the built in Media Player Android control. Unfortunately there is no way to install your own codecs on Android, so all you can do is use a player which comes with its own codecs and doesn't use the Media Player Android control, e.g. VLC.

[mackeev]

I see. Who would expect Pie missing codecs?
VLC, by the way, plays those streams, but... very poorly (choppy and stammering sound). We'll wait and see how Pie will develop.

[ghisler(Author)]

VLC brings its own codecs, which means that they are most probably not hardware accelerated.

According to Google, AAC should be supported. But it costs a patent license, so it may have been left out on your device:
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/media-formats