HOWTO: Install .WMA support for XMMS

[Strid]

HOWTO get .WMA support for XMMS?
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XMMS is not able to play .WMA files by default. If you want .WMA support, you need to install a plugin. This is a HOWTO on how to do that.

We're assuming, that you've already installed XMMS. If you need help on installing XMMS, have a look at www.ubuntuguide.org.
Now, lets get .WMA support for XMMS. First, get the xmms-dev package. Then download this file,

http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/xmms-wma-1.0.4.tar.bz2 .

Unpack the downloaded file, make and install it.


These are the commands you should give in the terminal.

$ sudo apt-get install xmms-dev

...
(go to the directory where you placed the file you've just downloaded)
...

$ tar -xjf xmms-wma-1.0.4.tar.bz2
$ cd xmms-wma-1.0.4
$ make
$ sudo make install

If everything goes well, XMMS should be able to play .WMA files now.


/Anders Christensen

[Bomper]

bmp-wma (http://bmp-plugins.berlios.de/) - A WMA decoder --- Originally based on xmms-wma (http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/), with lots of improvements

beep-media-player --> 21st Century --> Thank you XMMS --> 20st Century

[kuleali]

Nice, :) ! It worked

[karmah]

doesnt work for me :O !!!
Everything worked fine until i tried to open a .wma file..xmms doesn't wanna play it ! :-? :neutral:
somebody help? :/

Edit: made thread here instead http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=224845#post224845

[tomwell]

I try this but i get error 1 when i do the make command and then error 2 when i do make install command...

Anyone know whats happening?? It would be really cool if i could play wma in xmms....

Peace

Tom

[AlexMartinius]

The link in the first post doesn't work anymore. Version 1.0.5 is the newest release, you can find it here: http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/

Installing with make and make install didn't work here, so I converted the rpm (http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/xmms-wma-1.0.5-1.i386.rpm) to deb using alien and installed the deb with:


$ sudo dpkg -i xmms-wma_1.0.5-2_i386.deb

And it works. :)

[cvmostert]

The link in the first post doesn't work anymore. Version 1.0.5 is the newest release, you can find it here: http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/

Installing with make and make install didn't work here, so I converted the rpm (http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/xmms-wma-1.0.5-1.i386.rpm) to deb using alien and installed the deb with:


$ sudo dpkg -i xmms-wma_1.0.5-2_i386.deb

And it works. :)


i tried this but at first attempt xmms did not want to pay a wma file...

i will play around with it...

[cvmostert]

Ok, great... it works... probably needed to be restarted twice?

bottom line -> it works... wierd that it is not installed with w32codecs...

EDIT: probably because xmms is not a default app..

[Cris(c)]

It totally worked for me. Instead of xmms-wma-1.0.4, I used version 1.0.5...thanks a lot!

[wjgeorge]

sudo apt-get install xmms-wma

and yes you should exit xmms BEFORE running this!

[Strid]

Yes, you'd probably be better off using the xmms-wma from the repo nowadays. :)

Good catch!

[ItalOz]

BUMP

I installed the plug-in, just now, but I can't jump to a time into the WMA file like I can do in the MP3.
If I move the slider forward it makes me jump to the next file rather them moving into the WMA time

Any idea?