WMA files

[Dotan Cohen]

On 7/11/05, Peter Farič <peter.faric at ledinek.com> wrote:
>  Piero wrote: 
>  
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steven Stern
> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 7:28 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: WMA files
> 
> I've copied all of music files from my Windows machine to /var/music.
> Music Player (Rhythmbox) finds and plays the MP3 files, but seems to
> ignore the WMA files. Is there an addin/plugin for it that will let it
> read/play/catalog the WMA files?
>  
>  Just install xmms and xmms-wma packages...
> 
> Piero
> 
>  
>  One other way is also to: 
>  - install mplayer with ffmpeg lib
>  - install xmms
>  - install xmms mplayer plugin for use with wma and other prop. formats
>  
>  
>  Cheers,
>  Peter F.
>  

Would converting the WMA files to mp3 or ogg be an option? How would
that affect sound quality?

Dotan Cohen
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