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Whilst I realise that I shouldn't hold my breath for AAC support in Mediabox, I was wondering if anyone knew how to get mediabox to just pass AAC files by? Rather than throwing up an unsupported file type warning and have it hang until you hit OK, it would be much cooler if it continued playing the other tracks in a playlist.

Other than that, what a great program!

I don't have many AAC files, but those that I have are played by MediaBox.

Essentially, there are two ASCII text files for file recognition in MediaBox.
/usr/lib/mediabox/mimetypes.mapping (need to be root to edit) contains the mapping of file extensions to MIME types and a more general name.

/home/user/.mediabox/players.mapping (overrides /usr/lib/mediabox/mediaplayer/players.mapping) determines which backend is used for which media type. This file gets written when changing the media backend settings in the preferences viewer.

Both files can be edited by hand, too. But this requires to restart MediaBox.

mimetypes.mapping currently says:
for AAC. Files with extension .aac are recognized as MP4-Audio, which is then
mapped to the osso-media-server in players.mapping by default:

You're right. MediaBox should rather skip unrecognized files than wait for user response with an error dialog. I'm going to change this.

Thank you so much for the comprehensive help.