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Cant get Rhythmbox to read wma files

Asked by Glenn Smith

I have installed Lucid from the CD
I can't get Rhythmbox to read wma files
I have tried installing the Win32 codec package from Medibuntu, but it didn't help.

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Glenn Smith (glenn-smith) said : 		#1

(I think Rhytmbox uses gstreamer...)
I have found a way of getting gstreamer updated :
Open Firefox, open a wma music file from the menu (File, Open a file...)
Firefox will report that greffons are missing, and the correct greffons will be installed for gstreamer.

Rhytmbox now also reads wma files.

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Stéphane Scot (stephane-chloste) said : 		#2

If wma is one of the main gstreamer plugins then installing gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad and gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly in synaptic will probably do it (or just install ubuntu-restricted-extras which contains the above plus other codecs and things)