On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:45:58 +1100, Becky Doyle wrote: > What I would like to know is whether it plays WMA files... I'm thinking of > switching from Windows to Ubuntu and I'm a little wary of whether I can play > all my music or not.
Rhythmbox uses the GStreamer multimedia framework to play back audio files. To play WMA files, you will need to install two packages: 'gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly' and 'gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg'. Both are available from the 'universe' component of the Ubuntu software repository. If the above reads like gibberish, see <http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/components> for more information. :) Note that if your WMA files are 'protected' by DRM (copy protection) then you'll need to decrypt them somehow before GStreamer will be able to play them. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
