----- "Joel Roth" <joelz@pobox.com> wrote:
> I backed up the entire user directory... not a single error.
luky guy
> 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).
why ffplay? why not mplayer?
> 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.
can't you post somewhere one of those files so that we can
try to play them? Or just a few seconds if you can, I think
it's more or less legal. Or send a link to me by private email.
Always a pleasure to help someone digging for, well, freedom.
Cédric.
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