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

[Cedric Roux]

----- "Joel Roth" <joelz at 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.