[DongaTon]

Hi guys, I hope you can help.

I've bought a 1Tb external USB harddrive and I'm about to undertake the task of getting all my CDs onto the ext HD.

I've settled on using iTunes and encoding my albums to AAC (MP4audio) 192kbps kr 256kbps vbr, I think AAC gives better quality to file size, etc.

Anyway, the xbox plays AAC/mp4a just fine and it sounds great, however I noticed in the 'Now Playing' display on the media player that only the Song Title is given, and it has '.mp4a' tagged on the end?

For example, I tested using Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' album.

I can browse fine by artist , find Radiohead, then In Rainbows is there fine, no problems. But when you open album to look at the songs, they all have 'mp4a' lumped on the end.

Then when you play the track, as said it just says 'Reckoner.mp4a' ughhh! And artist and other info fields are blank)

i check mp3 stuff and it plays and shows all theinfo fine.

I dunno if this is a format issue (mp3 storing more file info or perhaps can be read more easily by the xbox, than aac files?) and perhaps it's even of more relevance to ask this in an iTunes/audio file format type forum, but I'm just interested if anyone else has saw this before and if there's anyway of getting round it?

I find it annoying enough that thexbox doesn't display album artwork when you've got tunes on shuffle, but if it only gives you the song title with.mp4a messily stuck on the end, and no artist info then I'd hate that!!!

I've not looked at the albums in iTunes to maybe add the info manually there and see if that makes a difference, but I'm surprised that if you are navigatingto a particular track through folders called 'Radiohead' then 'In Rainbows' and then the song, the xbox doesn't appear to associate these with the album and artist info when playing?

I really hope someone can help or even throw in some suggestions-I want to get started ripping my CDs and would rather do it in aac than mp3.

Greg