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playing wma on the rhythmbox

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The rythmbox player no longer plays wma music files. When it's playing wma files it shows 'not playing'. whether you pause and play again nothing happens. can you help me with this.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

For multimedia issues, this page has useful information: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

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abhinaba moulik (abhinaba-moulik) said : 		#2

try to play wma files with either totem or gnome mplayer.

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:23 PM, jean
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> New question #67117 on rhythmbox in ubuntu:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+question/67117
>
> The rythmbox player no longer plays wma music files. When it's playing wma
> files it shows 'not playing'. whether you pause and play again nothing
> happens. can you help me with this.
>
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Meluco (daniel-banobre-dopico) said : 		#3

If rythmbox doesn't work... use another aplication... Is this a solution?.

Totem plays ok wma files, but rythmnbox doesn't.

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Meluco (daniel-banobre-dopico) said : 		#4

There is a bug reported in rhythmbox. #353589

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