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

[Rustom Mody]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Joel Roth <joelz at pobox.com> 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.

ntfsclone can replicate a windows (boot) partition from linux
You may need to adjust the partition flags with fdisk.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1694828
[Pardon if this is an irrelevant answer -- not really read the whole thread]

>
> 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).
>
> 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?
>
> 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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