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

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Tue Mar 1 18:47:35 UTC 2011


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.

If the WMAs are encrypted, I don't think any Linux distro can play them.

> 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.

Any distro with the XFCE desktop environment. Try some of the Linux Live 
CDs like Linux Mint on it and see.

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David
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