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I did finally get this working. Adding m4a to the conf file does indeed fix the issue. The original problem i had is i assumed "restarting server" would accept the changes to the conf file. After carefully reading the FAQs, i read i had to shut down UMS first, make the conf file change, and restart ...

More testing shows the purchased AAC files will play on WD TV Live if i change the extension from m4a to aac. So can someone tell me how to treat m4a as aac in the wdtv live conf file? I tried just adding m4a to the streamextensions list and i saved the conf file as a txt file, and restarted the ...

More testing shows WMP12 plays the m4a files just fine on WD Tv Live. Also, i see that m4a files are supposedly apple lossless, but i don't think that's accurate. The file sizes are only 4M-7M, so i don't think that's truly lossless. I would expect apple lossless filesizes to be more like wav file ...

Does UMS support M4a out of the box on WD TV Live? I can play mp3s and also Mp4 videos, but m4a audio files from itunes don't play. It attempts and just skips to the next song and keeps failing until it hits a mp3. Do i need a WD TV live config file change?