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rhythmbox won't play all my music

Asked by daniel seeley

I burned all of my music from windows media player onto cd. some music came from napster & some from cd. some songs are in wma format, others in mp3 format. i installed ubuntu, copied disc files to "music" folder & opened it w/ rhythmbox. it won't play about 25 of them. it says they're encrypted. some that won't play are in wma format & some in mp3 format. Please help me.

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George Standish (george-standish-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Daniel,

Verify that you have ubuntu-restricted-extras installed on your system (if you can play some WMAs then you probably already do).

You may be running into a DRM issue, which probably cannot be solved on linux.

Best of luck,
George

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Alessandro Tocci (alessandro-tocci) said : 		#2

If you can play some MP3 and some WMA, George Standish should be right talking you about DRM. I fell under a similar issue when formatting a laptop for a friend. The music was copied into a USB drive and then put back in the PC, and after that some songs couldn't be played. I had no answer to explain this behavior until I tried to open those audio files with Windows, which warned me that I needed to pay for getting authorization to listen to the songs because their license was expired due to too many copy/paste between different drives. Try to open one of those files on a Windows system and you will be confirmed whether this is the case or not.

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