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Shining Arcanine
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 Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 8:16 pm Post subject: Playing WMA Lossless Encoded files |
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When I used to use Windows, I ripped all of the CDs in my house to my PC using WMA Lossless compression. Since switching to Linux, all of the baggage associated with setting up Amarok kept me from listening to them, because I did not want to setup a MySQL server. Today, I found out about Clementine, which is an Amarok fork and does not require a MySQL database. Unfortunately, it seems that there is no WMA Lossless decoder available to Clementine. I have run it from the commandline to confirm that it was complaining about codecs to stderr:
| Quote: | Before xine_open() *****
After xine_open() *****
QTimeLine::start: already running
xine_get_error()
"There is no available decoder." |
Does anyone know how to get WMA Lossless support working in it? If it is not possible, is there a way that I can mass convert all of my wma files to another format that does work? |
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sebaro
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| Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:44 am Post subject: |
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Are you using the xine or gstreamer backend? For gstreamer try the "bad" or "ugly" plugins.
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I see it's xine backend  . Do you have the "win32codecs" flag enabled? |
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aCOSwt
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| Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:43 am Post subject: Re: Playing WMA Lossless Encoded files |
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| Shining Arcanine wrote: | | If it is not possible, is there a way that I can mass convert all of my wma files to another format that does work? |
Sorry for not being able to answer your first question.
However, for this one, I have been successfully mass-converting wma files to flac (lossless) under my freeBSD thanks to pacpl.
http://pacpl.sourceforge.net/ |
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Shining Arcanine
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| Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| sebaro wrote: | Are you using the xine or gstreamer backend? For gstreamer try the "bad" or "ugly" plugins.
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I see it's xine backend . Do you have the "win32codecs" flag enabled? |
The default is xine. Would it be a good idea if I enabled all 3 back-ends via use flags?
As for win32codecs, I added "media-libs/xine-lib win32codecs" to /etc/portage/package.use, but it does not seem to turn the USE flag on. Even USE="win32codecs" emerge -pv xine-lib will not make the USE flag go on. Do you have any idea on how to force it on?
Edit: I am using amd64, which seems to be what is forcing the flag off. Do you have any other suggestions? |
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sebaro
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| Shining Arcanine wrote: | | Edit: I am using amd64, which seems to be what is forcing the flag off. Do you have any other suggestions? |
You could try media-libs/amd64codecs, and maybe you'll need the "real" flag for xine-lib. |
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Gusar
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| Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Shining Arcanine wrote: | | Do you have any other suggestions? |
Compile a 32bit mplayer. There used to be a 32bit mplayer-bin in portage, but it seems it's not there anymore, so you'll need to compile manually. |
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Etal
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| Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| If it works with MPlayer, you could install Phonon with the MPlayer backend from an ebuild in bugzilla. |
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