Re: Need Help -- Audio Experts

Farley Flud wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

Music is available on YouTube (???) but it is containerized in a video
format.
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Fortunately, with GNU/Linux, it is easy to extract.
First, determine the audio format:
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ffprobe file.xxx
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Usually, this will be AAC or OPUS.
Second, do the extraction:
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ffmpeg -i file.xxx -acodec copy file.(opus/aac)
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So far, so good.  But how can we now play the audio?
If the file is OPUS just do:
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opusdec file.opus --force-wav - | aplay
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Beautiful!
If the file is AAC then do:
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faad -w file.aac | aplay
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However this does NOT work, although according to the docs
it should.
The stdout of faad is fucked.  Most likely it is a serious bug.
This DOES work:
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ffmpeg -i file.aac -f wav pipe:1 | aplay
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(I omit the WAV file analysis of the two different commands.)
Can anyone confirm that the "faad -w" command is FUBAR?
If I get confirmation then I will report the bug.
Note that this DOES work:
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faad -o file.wav file.acc && aplay file.wav
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Only in the stdout case (-w) is the WAV file maligned.
Note: I don't want to hear any "Duh, just use VLC man" responses.

Do your own homework, kid :-D

--
Picking up the pieces of my sweet shattered dream,
I wonder how the old folks are tonight,
Her name was Ann, and I'll be damned if I recall her face,
She left me not knowing what to do.
 
Carefree Highway, let me slip away on you,
Carefree Highway, you seen better days,
The morning after blues, from my head down to my shoes,
Carefree Highway, let me slip away, slip away, on you...
 
Turning back the pages to the times I love best,
I wonder if she'll ever do the same,
Now the thing that I call livin' is just bein' satisfied,
With knowing I got noone left to blame.
Carefree Highway, I got to see you, my old flame...
 
Searching through the fragments of my dream shattered sleep,
I wonder if the years have closed her mind,
I guess it must be wanderlust or tryin' to get free,
From the good old faithful feelin' we once knew.
-- Gordon Lightfoot, "Carefree Highway"