Re: [LAU] Audio player that handles WMA audio files and WPL playlists

From: S. Massy <lists@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Mar 02 2011 - 01:35:24 EET

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 07:53:12AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:33:59PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> > A friend has an old laptop with Windows XP that is
> > misbehaving.
> >
> > He has a lot of music and playlists in the above formats.
> > Does Linux have a player that is compatible with these?
> > Wine is also possible, especially if the apps can be
> > run off an existing Windows partition.
> >
> > I'm considering installing a Linux distribution for him.
> > The window manager needs to be lightweight enough to run on
> > a Pentium M, with 500MB memory. He'd like to be able to
> > view videos as well.
>
> DRM rears it's ugly head!
>
> One reason for the misbehavior may be that the hard drive
> has a lot of errors, including some bad sectors.
What I usually do in such cases is boot up a live cd like knoppix and
run a few tests (e.g badblocks) to determine whether there is a real
problem or only windows insanity.

>
> I backed up the entire user directory... not a single error.
>
> Then I copied a couple WMA albums to a NTFS drive.
> These are albums he ripped using Windows Media Player.
>
> Try as I might, I couldn't get them to play under Linux. As
> Julien suggested, I tried downloading codecs from the
> mplayer site, deliberately specifying which codecs to use,
> and playing with ffplay (ffmpeg).
What does mplayer say when failing?

>
> So I rebooted *my* laptop into the obligatory Win7 partition,
> set up the media player (choosing don't get rights from the Internet)
> and then double-clicked the file. Surprise. Win7 says "You don't have
> rights to play this!"
>
> Could some DRM limitations explain why I can't play these files
> under Linux?
Possibly.

>
> Does someone know ways people work with or around this? The
> guy is a drummer, and he and his wife are destitute.
> We don't have much of a budget for repairs.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Regards
> >
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