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j2902

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Registered: 2009-12-21

Posts: 20

[Solved] Audacious WMA

Sorry, this is probably a stupid question, but how can I get auducaious to play WMA files?

I can't seem to figure it out.

(And yes, I did google)

Thanks.

Last edited by j2902 (2010-01-02 23:52:38)

ZaQ

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Registered: 2009-12-12

Posts: 106

Re: [Solved] Audacious WMA

Hi,

according to audcious homepage, this shouldn't be a problem.
http://audacious-media-player.org/features

Maybe your wma-file is corrupted (try another one) or you have to install something else (post the error message)

I hope, I could help.

j2902

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Registered: 2009-12-21

Posts: 20

Re: [Solved] Audacious WMA

Here is the entire output from running audacious... didn't even think of checking the terminal.

$ audacious
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Input/cdaudio-ng.so): libcdio_cdda.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Input/sid.so): libsidplay.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Input/wavpack.so): libwavpack.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/General/mtp_up.so): libmtp.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Visualization/projectm-1.0.so): libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Transport/neon.so): libneon.so.27: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load plugin (/usr/lib/audacious/Transport/mms.so): libmms.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
alsa-gapless: snd_device_name_hint failed: Invalid argument.

** (audacious:1869): WARNING **: Cannot play file:///home/jake/Music/Guns%20N'%20Roses/Greatest%20Hits/04%20Paradise%20City.wma: no decoder found.

Looks like its missing a bunch of files... any idea where to retrieve them?

Statix

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From: Hangzhou, China

Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 240

Re: [Solved] Audacious WMA

You can get all those libraries from the repos, but I don't think that's what's causing your WMA problems (I think these are just optional addons) Just do a pacman -Ss search for whatever the library is (neon, gtkglext, sidplay, etc.) and you'll find the packages.

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j2902

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Registered: 2009-12-21

Posts: 20

Re: [Solved] Audacious WMA

So, it looks like I'm missing the wma decoder.  However, mplayer is capable of playing the same wma file -- which doesn't really make sense.  Any idea of how to properly configure audacious so that it uses / finds the codec that mplayer is locating?

Here is the output from mplayer

Playing 01 Welcome to the Jungle.wma.
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
Clip info:
 title: Welcome to the Jungle
 author: Guns N' Roses
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16002->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 272.5 (04:32.4) of 273.0 (04:33.0)  1.1%

Thanks.

henkidefix

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2009-01-11

Posts: 38

Re: [Solved] Audacious WMA

maybe a stupid response, but just to be shure: did you install both audacious AND audacious-plugins ?  root>pacman -S audacious-plugins
Happy using audacious but without the plugins it's completely useless.
Just for your question searched around my system, found a file "wma" and see: no problem, it plays. Another note: isn't it possible to have a DRM-protection in a wma-file ?

j2902

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Registered: 2009-12-21

Posts: 20

Re: [Solved] Audacious WMA

Yea, audacious-plugins is installed.

j2902

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Registered: 2009-12-21

Posts: 20

Re: [Solved] Audacious WMA

/sigh

I ended up installing graveman which had a dependency on ffmpeg-0.5-1.  This then allowed me to play wma files.  >.>

Anywho, thanks.

blackjack

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Registered: 2010-01-22

Posts: 1

Re: [Solved] Audacious WMA

Thank you for your answer。I have the same problem,you help me found that is because lose some lib
[root@myhost Input]# ldd ffaudio.so
    libavformat.so.52 => not found
    libavcodec.so.52 => not found
    libavutil.so.50 => not found

so when audacious startup,it can't load /usr/lib/audacious/Input/ffaudio.so

JohannesSM64

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From: Norway

Registered: 2009-10-11

Posts: 623

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Re: [Solved] Audacious WMA

So, it looks like I'm missing the wma decoder.  However, mplayer is capable of playing the same wma file -- which doesn't really make sense.  Any idea of how to properly configure audacious so that it uses / finds the codec that mplayer is locating?

Here is the output from mplayer

Playing 01 Welcome to the Jungle.wma.
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
Clip info:
 title: Welcome to the Jungle
 author: Guns N' Roses
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16002->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 272.5 (04:32.4) of 273.0 (04:33.0)  1.1%

Thanks.

MPlayer is standalone and does not "look for codecs".