geting Sonic Visualiseer to use a specified codec

[davidf]

Sonic Visualiser (like most audio players in Ubuntu) does not know how to decode an Apple Lossless sound file. However, I have discovered that the alac-decoder (/usrle/bin/alac-decoder) is the codec for decoding apple lossless files. I have gotten VLC Player to use this codec, but do not know how to get Sonic Visualiser to use this codec to decode music files.

Is this possible? If so, how do I do it? I really do not want to compile Sonic Visualiser just to do this it would likely be easier but far more time consuming to decode the files on my much slower Mac lap top then transfer them to my eeepc.

Hopefullyhttp://www.sonicvisualiser.org this is a  trivial procvess (getting SV to use alac-decoder)

[cannam]

David,

I'm afraid there's no way to add another decoder to SV without writing code and rebuilding.  It doesn't use any of the typical streamer systems with plugins.


Chris