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From: Joel Roth <joelz@...>
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Subject: Re: [LAU] Audio player that handles WMA audio files and WPL playlists
Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 5:53 pm

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:33:59PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:


DRM rears it's ugly head!


One reason for the misbehavior may be that the hard drive

has a lot of errors, including some bad sectors.


I backed up the entire user directory... not a single error.


Then I copied a couple WMA albums to a NTFS drive.

These are albums he ripped using Windows Media Player.


Try as I might, I couldn't get them to play under Linux.  As

Julien suggested, I tried downloading codecs from the

mplayer site, deliberately specifying which codecs to use,

and playing with ffplay (ffmpeg).


So I rebooted *my* laptop into the obligatory Win7 partition,

set up the media player (choosing don't get rights from the Internet)

and then double-clicked the file. Surprise. Win7 says "You don't have

rights to play this!"


Could some DRM limitations explain why I can't play these files

under Linux? 


Does someone know ways people work with or around this? The

guy is a drummer, and he and his wife are destitute.

We don't have much of a budget for repairs.


Thanks.


> Any suggestions?


--

Joel Roth

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[LAU] Audio player that handles WMA audio files and WPL play..., Joel Roth, (Tue Mar 1, 9:33 am)
Re: [LAU] Audio player that handles WMA audio files and WPL ..., S. Massy, (Tue Mar 1, 7:13 pm)
Re: [LAU] Audio player that handles WMA audio files and WPL ..., david, (Tue Mar 1, 7:27 pm)
Re: [LAU] Audio player that handles WMA audio files and WPL ..., david, (Tue Mar 1, 6:47 pm)
Re: [LAU] Audio player that handles WMA audio files and WPL ..., Joel Roth, (Thu Mar 3, 9:08 pm)
Re: [LAU] Audio player that handles WMA audio files and WPL ..., Joel Roth, (Tue Mar 1, 5:53 pm)
Re: [LAU] Audio player that handles WMA audio files and WPL ..., Rustom Mody, (Fri Mar 4, 2:30 am)
Re: [LAU] Audio player that handles WMA audio files and WPL ..., Rustom Mody, (Fri Mar 4, 2:53 am)
Re: [LAU] Audio player that handles WMA audio files and WPL ..., Rustom Mody, (Fri Mar 4, 3:07 am)
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Re: [LAU] Audio player that handles WMA audio files and WPL ..., S. Massy, (Fri Mar 4, 5:25 pm)
Re: [LAU] Audio player that handles WMA audio files and WPL ..., Cedric Roux, (Thu Mar 3, 9:03 am)
Re: [LAU] Audio player that handles WMA audio files and WPL ..., Joel Roth, (Thu Mar 3, 10:32 am)
Re: [LAU] Audio player that handles WMA audio files and WPL ..., Cedric Roux, (Thu Mar 3, 12:16 pm)
Re: [LAU] Audio player that handles WMA audio files and WPL ..., S. Massy, (Tue Mar 1, 11:35 pm)
Re: [LAU] Audio player that handles WMA audio files and WPL ..., Julien Claassen, (Tue Mar 1, 10:58 am)
Re: [LAU] Audio player that handles WMA audio files and WPL ..., M Watts, (Tue Mar 1, 10:52 am)