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Offline rammland

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Playing .WMA files with Rockbox
« on: March 27, 2007, 08:33:13 AM »
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.
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Offline GodEater

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Re: Playing .WMA files with Rockbox
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2007, 08:42:56 AM »
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.
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Offline Soader03

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Re: Playing .WMA files with Rockbox
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2007, 08:50:03 AM »
In the Flyspray, someone made a WMA codec... Why it's not in the current build?
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Offline GodEater

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Re: Playing .WMA files with Rockbox
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2007, 08:56:10 AM »
Because it doesn't even compile ?
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Offline linuxstb

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Re: Playing .WMA files with Rockbox
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2007, 08:59:08 AM »
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?

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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Offline Chris The Ninja Pirate

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Re: Playing .WMA files with Rockbox
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2007, 09:15:11 AM »
That makes me want to weep...........I decided to junk itunes, since I despise everything about it and so ripped my latest collection to .wma. Subsequntly I am in the process of trying to get my old ipod up and running again which prompted me to put Rockbox on and was hoping it would support .wma - case of RTFM sadly. Ho hum, I am going to have to convert all the .wma to something else now and hope they don't sound too s****y.
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Offline LinusN

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Re: Playing .WMA files with Rockbox
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2007, 09:19:16 AM »
Quote from: Chris The Ninja Pirate on March 27, 2007, 09:15:11 AM
That makes me want to weep...........I decided to junk itunes, since I despise everything about it and so ripped my latest collection to .wma.
Out of curiosity, why did you choose WMA of all formats?
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Offline GodEater

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Re: Playing .WMA files with Rockbox
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2007, 09:43:57 AM »
Must....resist....urge...to link to GoldenQuotes....
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Offline Chris The Ninja Pirate

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Re: Playing .WMA files with Rockbox
« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2007, 11:25:09 AM »
Quote from: LinusN on March 27, 2007, 09:19:16 AM

Out of curiosity, why did you choose WMA of all formats?


Rather a n00b mistake - I don't really 'do' compressed music, hence my ipod has sat redundant in a cupboard for the last 18 months, and not thinking about it before I sat down one wet winters afternoon, with a couple of bottles of red, I intended to grab a couple of tracks off a few CD's and ending up ripping about 100 CD's from my collection. Norks.

Quote from: GodEater on March 27, 2007, 09:43:57 AM
Must....resist....urge...to link to GoldenQuotes....

I know, I know......
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Offline GodEater

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Re: Playing .WMA files with Rockbox
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2007, 11:26:43 AM »
Quote from: Chris The Ninja Pirate on March 27, 2007, 11:25:09 AM
I know, I know......

*Applauding the good grace you took that in*
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