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

[S. Massy]

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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> > Joel Roth
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