Yeah, I see that I don't seem to be able to play .wma files since I got cm7. It's certainly not the end of the world, but most of my music is in wma. Is that just the facts of life, or is there a way to do it? Doesn't matter what player I use or whether the files are internal or on SD. Hmm. :/
PowerAmp plays wma encoded music. It didn't work for you?
Trimis de pe Defy CM9
No, I know, many players *play* wma files. Winamp, etc. But none will play them since I went to CM7. Alas.
wma is a licensed codec (owned by microsoft). The Cyanogenmod team would have to buy that license (which is proportional to the number of users using it) in order to decode .wma files.There are over 40k CM7 users over the world.
That's not possible unfortunately
CM7 + CM9 double boot
This makes sense. Thanks
Totally understandable. I was thinking, if I can't I can't. But if I can and I just don't know how, I want to know how. Thanks
Related
Hi Guys...
I'm struggling here, I've surfed the wiki, the FAQs and the web and these seems as though it should be simple but...
I've tried (a) dragging and dropping into the device music folder and (b)importing through syncing with my PC's WMP 11 both with equal success - none to be exact. I can see the name of the file but it won't play.
I've treid some MP3 ring tones and they work OK but I can't listen to those on the tube each morning. Mearly all my music is in iTunes as M4A's which are stated as being compatible and supported - but they don't play.
Any idea's, am I missing CODECs ??? Anyone got an idiot guide for getting music out of iTunes into my HTC ???
Thanx for your help as always...
This one puzzles me.
ALL my music on the HD is in M4A format (because it seems more space-efficient than MP3). It plays no problem with the unbuilt players.
My files weren't from iTunes though. I make them using the Nero codecs on the PC.
m4a from iTunes on touch HD do not work
Hi out there,
I am facing the same problem, I can see my m4a files on the Touch HD but they won't play. After converting them into mp3 it's fine but this is a hassle and the instructions say it can play m4a. Any news on this would be highly appreciated.
The songs are iTunes + and thus DRM free, so this cannot be the problem.
Thanks for sharing any advice,
cheers,
levallier
Hey guys,
I had this problem aswell since I copied my iTunes directory to my SD card. I decided to buy some music player software for my phone since I use it alot so.
Now I'm using Pocketplayer and I've had no problem since .
Regards,
/a
WMP 11 and m4a files
I too am having the same problem. My files are from iTunes and DRM free but they will not play. I believe the problem is that the ROM I have is using WMP 10.3 and only has a WMP 11 skin. I have not found a way to 'upgrade' WMP to any other version..
levallier said:
Hi out there,
I am facing the same problem, I can see my m4a files on the Touch HD but they won't play. After converting them into mp3 it's fine but this is a hassle and the instructions say it can play m4a. Any news on this would be highly appreciated.
The songs are iTunes + and thus DRM free, so this cannot be the problem.
Thanks for sharing any advice,
cheers,
levallier
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try to create an AAC-version...
Hey... I had the same problem: My bought, DRM-free iTunes Plus files did not play on my Touch Diamond2 even though all metadata - including coverimages - showed up nicely in the TF3D Mucis app. After a little research in here, I tried to use the "Create AAC version" option in iTunes and PRESTO - all my music was playable again. I suppose this is due to some incompatibility with the wrapper Apple uses around m4a-files.
If you want to keep track of which files are "originals" and which are AAC-converted versions you can create a smart playlist in iTunes and select by type...
core player have no problems playing any m4a files I got both own conveted and itune bought mind you non drm
and even if one got drm files one can convert them to non drm without any problems using itunes now that apple drop'd drm
I use coreplayer to play both m4a and m4b files. Yes I know its not free, but its well worth it IMO.
So now that the 2.2 upgrade has broken the built in media player so that it no longer reads WMA tags, all my albums are found under the "unknown artist" heading
So what is the go to player that does not rely on the android subsystem (3 has the same problem) now?
PS
Converting to MP3 is really not an option.
I can't really help unfortunately, but can confirm Mixzing also suffers from this so guess it uses the same library as default.
I endured the ballache of conversion to mp3 although I kinda had been looking for an excuse to do it anyway.
Mushhushshu said:
I can't really help unfortunately, but can confirm Mixzing also suffers from this so guess it uses the same library as default.
I endured the ballache of conversion to mp3 although I kinda had been looking for an excuse to do it anyway.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The problem is that WMV is the only en mass format that gives lossless.
MP3 is fine but doesn't give lossless.
The sound system in my BMW is happy playing MP3 and WMA and WMA lossless but the other lossless formats are not supported.
There is also the argument about 192kbps being better quality than a 192kbps MP3 but lets save that argument for another day
And lets remember, up until Sunday, everything was working just fine
I just left WM for android with my Atrix. One problem is that I listen to a lot of audio books that I download from the library. They come in from Overdrive. The best selection of books can only be found in wma format, not mp3. So far I have not found a way to listen to these files on my Atrix. Power Amp does not do it. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I am happy to pay for an app if it will work for me.
Did you ever find a way to get this to work?
Does anyone know what lib (or other files) are needed to enable the WMA codec?
My Android 2.2 phone can play WMA files natively, yet the Tablet can't.
(and yes I know I can convert the files, but WMA was my preferred choice when I made the stuff and it's way too much to convert all of it).
(and I know there are other apps that will play WMA (using PowerAmp right now), but I like the album spinner on the native player.
MoboPlayer... find it in the android market... works great!
I want NATIVE support not another player.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/1806...ft_wma_audio_files_from_android_3_0_honeycomb
you cant have it...
PS: A mod please move this thread to general nothing to do with dev
thor2002ro said:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/1806...ft_wma_audio_files_from_android_3_0_honeycomb
you cant have it...
PS: A mod please move this thread to general nothing to do with dev
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It would have everything to do with dev if someone would DEVELOP it.
the honeycomb source is not public.... so no lib development....
MoboPlayer does NOT play .wma files on my SGS2 with ICS 4.0.3. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey. Loving CM7 so far, but I've run into a problem. Either CM7 doesn't support .wma files or something else is wrong, but none of my .wma songs will play in any player. Is there a fix for this or is my only recourse to convert all of them into .mp3?
plx help....
Did you try Rock Player (from market)? Never ever betrayed me.
There are many, many third party media players from the market that support .wma format sound files
But it's normal for wma files not to appear for example in the default player for Android right? That happens to me and happened with winamp and real media, which I suppose don't support wma files.
If it's not normal for them not to appear in the default player what may be the fault? The ROM I use or the HTC HD2 itself?
I appreciate any reply and sorry if I'm asking something repeated already. Despite the traces of what is said not only in this thread being quite obvious I'd like full confirmation of this
Thanks for nothing :/
For those who in the future have the same problem, try Power Amp, for me it worked like a charm. Playe Pro didn't.