I need to download windows media player 11 for my new mp3

Hello, I think Rhythmbox media player can reconize it

Take a look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Rhythmbox#Introduction

To play mp3 format, you need to install ubuntu-restricted-extras ...

But, before that, you must look at

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

Thank you ^-^

Ummm like I said it's not even picking it up.

altough you have created an empty file and installed ubuntu restricted extras?

No no I'm just saying that. My computer isn't picking it up. My PS3 notices its but I can't get into it but my computer won't even show it.

(Thx for your help Abi I apreciate it!)

I'm sorry, like you said "unbunto isn't able to pick it up and te devise says it's in usb mode", is your device have detected in ubuntu?

If you want to install wmp11 in ubuntu, i'm not sure that you can, it's because before installing, wmp11 setup must detect genuine of the windows ...

Sorry for my bad english

No ubunto isn't detecting it. (what do you mean?)

I mean when you plug in your mp3 player into computer, is ubuntu detect it, like something pop up, or a device icon appear on desktop .....

No nothing (plz email me: <email address hidden>)

No nothing (plz email me: <email address hidden>)

hello

please tell us which version of ubuntu you are using?

i did, it's 8.1

which mp3 player are you using?

Again: a Coby MP705-4G

To try installing a Windows program you'll either need to try Wine or else use VirtualBox or similar to install Xp in a virtual machine on your machine or else set up a dual boot with Windows but that sounds a bit restrictive for this.

Find Wine by going up to the top taskbar and click on

System - Administration - Synaptic Package Manager

it will ask for your normal user password, not your SuperUser/Root one. Use either search tool to look for & install "Wine". Note that "Wine Is Not an Emulator" as it uses a different approach that runs programs a lot faster than they would run in an Emulator. Wine HQ might have some guidelines on how to get Window Media Player 11 working, see it's Applications Database

http://appdb.winehq.org/

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

I've installed wine but none of the text is showing

Now you have Wine you should be able to find some way of installing Windows Media Player 11 in the Applications database.

http://appdb.winehq.org/

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Do you really thing that installing Windows Media Player is going to work or do anything to solve the problem?

I've installed wine but none of the text is showing(maybe)

I think taking notice of the original error message and working with that might work better but that would require knowledge on my part and willingness to try the answer out on the part of iltx

Hello Tom, his device is not recognized by ubuntu, i think the problem is not about install wmp11 with wine ...

this is his new question ....

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/62585

Good Luck ^-^

The title asks 1 question but the description asks another. I've no idea how to force-mount nor about getting devices recognised. I was hoping that installing something might help draw in dependencies that might fix the other problem too. At least dealing with the problem in the title does half the job ;)

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Well I'm sorry that you all are confused. I just want to install wmp 11.in hope that it will detect my mp3.

This question is related to https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/62585

Hope this helps

We don't think installing Win Media Player will help - we think you need to try Abi's suggestion. However, to install Win Media Player 11 you'll either need to try Wine or else use VirtualBox or similar to install Xp in a virtual machine on your machine or else set up a dual boot with Windows but that sounds a bit restrictive for this. Find and install Wine by going up to the top taskbar and click on

System - Administration - Synaptic Package Manager

it will ask for your normal user password, not your SuperUser/Root one. Use either search tool to look for & install "Wine". Note that "Wine Is Not an Emulator" as it uses a different approach that runs programs a lot faster than they would run in an Emulator. Wine HQ might have some guidelines on how to get Window Media Player 11 working, see it's Applications Database

http://appdb.winehq.org/

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

If you don't actually try the suggestions in either of the threads you have about this issue then i don't see how you expect to solve this. Also i don't see the point of posting a question if you're not willing to try out the answers that people give.

I think the questions are "Do you want to solve this problem? or do you just want to complain that you can't solve it without doing anything that might lead to the problem being solved?"

A future version of Wine will have USB driver support, which will supposedly allow things software like WMP or iTunes to see USB devices and recognize them, but it won't be available for at least 8 months. I still have to boot into Windows to interface with my Windows Mobile phone. Dual boot is a good idea.

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/02/13/interview-ubuntu-and-wine-expert-scott-ritchie/

Dual-boot is a great idea.  I also want to try out VirtualBox and install Windows on the virtual machine but i can't find any reason to use Windows stuff at the moment.  Perhaps i need to try to find a reason to get into using Usb devices

what is dual booting and how do i do so?

Dual boot means you have both Windows and Ubuntu on the same computer, and you can restart the computer in order to run one or the other. Did your computer come with Ubuntu pre-installed?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot

Tom: Can VirtualBox can't handle USB devices? I don't think that method works either.

No It had windows xp I installed ubunto 8.1 with a cd

Oh, ok. So you told it to use the whole hard drive and overwrite the Windows installation? It doesn't show a GRUB boot screen when you start the computer? Like this: http://www.davestechsupport.com/blog/images/grub.png

nope. just starts up.

Ok, forget dual-booting then. Although i have installed Windows quite a few times i still find it quite a painful process and one worth avoiding if at all possible. Ubuntu is very different. Although it's much easier it took me a few try-out's before i was able to install it decently. Mostly i found that it worked best when i had all the devices i normally use all plugged in. Another thing that helped was trying to install a few other distros so that i finally worked out what was happening at most of the different stages. The best one for learning about the install procedure was Wolvix and it might be interesting to see if you can install Wolvix on a tiny 1Gb partition on the same drive as Ubuntu. You should be able to do this without destroying the Ubuntu install and it should be able to read all the data that's on your Ubuntu partition.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=wolvix

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
While this guide is for installing Ubuntu as the 2nd OS on a drive that already has Windows as the 1st, i'm sure you can use it to work out how to install Wolvix as the 2nd OS that already has Ubuntu as the 1st one.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

If you are still having trouble with this then please post it as a new question. Only the most recent questions tend to get looked at so posting/re-posting a question just before america arrives online after work/school gives the best chance of getting a good few answers - such is the nature of the internet.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion

If the problem has been resolved then please follow the link to the forum thread and mark it as Solved but please give us a clue how you did manage to solve it and also use the button under where you type stuff in rather than giving me karma credit points for just sending this note to you.

Apologies, good luck and many regards from
Tom :)

Please read https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/62585