HOWTO: Play WMA audio files using Beep Media Player

[Darrena]

All of the commands below should be typed from a terminal. Applications->System Tools->Terminal

If you don't have the beep media player you can get it via synaptic or:

sudo apt-get install beep-media-player

First download the beep development files:

sudo apt-get install beep-media-player-dev

Download the WMA plugin:

wget http://download.berlios.de/bmp-plugins/bmp-wma-0.1.1.tar.gz

Extract the files

tar -xvzf bmp-wma-0.1.1.tar.gz

Build and install the plugin

cd bmp-wma-0.1.1

./configure

make

sudo make install

That's it! You can now play WMA with Beep Media Player, keep in mind that it still cannot play WMA files with DRM.

Let me repeat this, BEEP CANNOT PLAY WMA FILES WITH DRM! It will open the file and show the title in the window but it will not play it.

[Gandalf]

it didn't work for me, BMP just disappear when i try to play any wma file

[Darrena]

Originally Posted by Gandalf it didn't work for me, BMP just disappear when i try to play any wma file

Does it play MP3's successfully?

[Brum]

Hi very new to unbuntu.

Have followed the above steps and got as far as step 6 and typing in the ./configure command. Below is the response I get back. Can anyone give me a simple step by step guide as to what needs to be done to resolve this.

Cheers

********** ~/bmp-wma-0.1.1$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

[Druke]

Originally Posted by Brum Hi very new to unbuntu. Have followed the above steps and got as far as step 6 and typing in the ./configure command. Below is the response I get back. Can anyone give me a simple step by step guide as to what needs to be done to resolve this. Cheers ********** ~/bmp-wma-0.1.1$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details.

looks like you need a c/c++ compiler, get gcc

[bored2k]

sudo apt-get install build-essential

To the main poster: You could create a far deeper-better guide if you would include other plugins like OGG, FLAC, M4A, APE, Audioscrobbler (etc) support . I'm sure you know how..

[Brum]

Excellent! Thanks

[Darrena]

Originally Posted by bored2k sudo apt-get install build-essential To the main poster: You could create a far deeper-better guide if you would include other plugins like OGG, FLAC, M4A, APE, Audioscrobbler (etc) support . I'm sure you know how..

lol, well my point was only to get WMA support but maybe this weekend I will update it to be a more comprehensive guide to Beep Media Player.

[frodon]

thanks Darrena !

You can also read wma with XMMS using the xmms-wma module, after installing XMMS via synaptic you can download here the plugin (for example) : http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/

after you do the same kind of commands :

tar -xjvf xmms-wma-X.X.X.bz2

go into the created repertory and do

make

then

sudo make install

now open XMMS and go to preference (Ctrl+p), in the entry plugin verify that libwma.0 is activated and now you're ready to listen .wma files

[angrykeyboarder]

Originally Posted by frodon thanks Darrena ! You can also read wma with XMMS using the xmms-wma module....

Yes, but it's XMMS (w/that nasty GTK1..........)