Audacious doesnt play wma files

[MOPir]

It works on my desktop pc but not on my pandora. please help!

 

[sebt3]

On your desktop, audacious use w32codecs/w64codecs to handle wma files.

These are codec only available for x86, sadly.

 

[MOPir]

Thanks.

 

[ptitSeb]

I think there is some limited support of wma files in Deadbeef. Maybe be give it a try...

 

[FBnil]

SMPlayer2 does play them... http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=package.smplayer2

 

[Klumpen]

It refuses to play "Windows Media Audio"? Rightfully so!

 

[ssokolow]

On your desktop, audacious use w32codecs/w64codecs to handle wma files.


These are codec only available for x86, sadly.

Actually, that's not correct.


Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))

That reverse-engineered codec is the same one SMPlayer2 uses to play WMA on the Pandora. The Audacious PND is just too old. (It's either too old an FFmpeg or a version of Audacious from before the FFmpeg plugin stabilized enough for them to stop hard-coding the list of accepted formats.)

There's also a full list of what they reimplemented in the current version of FFmpeg. (It only requires external dependencies if there's an E in the "decoding" column. If there's an X, you're fine with a suitably recent version.)