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Playing .WMA files with Rockbox
rammland:
Hi All
A real newby here, and a blind one at that. So this may not be a completely new topic but I hope it is at least in the right forum. If not I'm sure you will soon tell me!
I am running Rockbox with speech enabled on an IAudio X5 60Gb machine. I've been looking back at some archived material and if I'm right Rockbox is not able to play .WMA files at this time, but a plugin/codek is in development, is that right?
I would be grateful if some one could let me know how things are going here as I have to say it didn't occur to me that installing Rockbox would stop me playing file types that the player says it supports in it's publicity material. I installed Rockbox so that I could hear where was while navigating around loads of music as a blind person, but I really hope that .WMA files can be supported as there are a lot of them around!
Thanks for any info and please go easy on me, I'm a new boy after all.
GodEater:
As far as I'm aware there's no-one working on the WMA codec currently.
It's on the list of possible projects for Google's Summer Of Code though - so if you cross your fingers and wish really hard - maybe someone will pick it up and you'll be listening to your WMA tunes by August. Assuming their not DRM crippled of course.
Soader03:
In the Flyspray, someone made a WMA codec... Why it's not in the current build?
GodEater:
Because it doesn't even compile ?
linuxstb:
--- Quote from: Soader03 on March 27, 2007, 08:50:03 AM ---In the Flyspray, someone made a WMA codec... Why it's not in the current build?
--- End quote ---
It's only the very early stages of work on porting a WMA codec to Rockbox. As GodEater said, it doesn't even compile any more.
Also, it's based on a very old version of ffmpeg - the work really needs to start again based on the current ffmpeg source.
There are also signs coming out of the ffmpeg project that someone may be converting to codec to fixed-point - which would greatly help anyone wishing to port it to Rockbox.
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