Re: WMA files

[Steven Stern <subscribed-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Øyvind Stegard wrote:
> Steven Stern wrote:
>
> > I've copied all of music files from my Windows machine to /var/music. 
> > Music Player (Rhythmbox) finds and plays the MP3 files, but seems to 
> > ignore the WMA files.  Is there  an addin/plugin for it that will let 
> > it read/play/catalog the WMA files?
> Check out gstreamer-* packages at http://freshrpms.net, gstreamer-ffmpeg 
> or gstreamer-pitfdll should enable Rhythmbox to play wma's (I guess they 
> have to be DRM-free/unencrypted). I think you'll need win32 codec DLLs 
> to use pitfdll.

I tried both packages from freshrpms, but it still grays out the WMA 
files when I try to import them into the libary.  Phoo!