not play wma sound files

[fotioskats]

i thought something else...how to convert wma to mp3? i tried to sooundconverter but nothing.

[Admin-Amir]

fotioskats.

here some options for you to do it:
VLC can transcode anything include WMA when use with the DMO codecs.

OR

HOWTO: convert wma to mp3

wma to wav:

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>mplayer -ao pcm:output-file-name.wav input-file-name.wma

wav to mp3:

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>mplayer -ao pcm:output-file-name.mp3 input-file-name.wav

And here you can play all the trix on the site:

http://zamzar.com/

And one more for you that you can download the packages and install on your machine
then convert any file to any file!

Perl Audio Converter is a tool for converting multiple audio types from one format to another. It supports AAC, AC3, AIFF, APE, AU, AVR, BONK, CAF, CDR, FAP, FLA, FLAC, IRCAM, LA, LPAC, M4A, MAT, MAT4, MAT5, MMF, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, MPP, NIST, OFR, OFS, OGG, PAC, PAF, PVF, RA, RAM, RAW, SD2, SF, SHN, SMP, SND, SPX, TTA, VOC, W64, WAV, WMA, and WV. It can also convert audio from the following video formats: RM, RV, ASF, DivX, MPG, MKV, MPEG, AVI, MOV, OGM, QT, VCD, SVCD, M4V, NSV, NUV, PSP, SMK, VOB, FLV, and WMV. A CD ripping function with CDDB support, batch conversion, tag preservation for most supported formats, independent tag reading/writing, and extensions for Amarok, Dolphin, and Konqueror are also provided.

http://pacpl.sourceforge.net/


This is from the Debian package:

multi-purpose audio converter/ripper/tagger script
Perl Audio Converter is a tool for converting multiple audio types from one format to another using various external encoders/decoders.
It supports the following audio formats: AAC, AC3, AIFF, APE, AU, AVR, BONK, CAF, CDR, FAP, FLA, FLAC, IRCAM, LA, LPAC, M4A, MAT, MAT4, MAT5, MMF, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, MPP, NIST, OFR, OFS, OGG, PAC, PAF, PVF, RA, RAM, RAW, SD2, SF, SHN, SMP, SND, SPX, TTA, VOC, W64, WAV, WMA, and WV.
It can also convert audio from the following video extensions: RM, RV, ASF, DivX, MPG, MKV, MPEG, AVI, MOV, OGM, QT, VCD, SVCD, M4V, NSV, NUV, PSP, SMK, VOB, FLV, and WMV.
Pacpl also includes a CD ripping function with CDDB support, batch conversion, tag preservation for most supported formats, independent tag reading/writing, a simple kommander gui and extensions for Dolphin and Konqueror. You can write your own modules in order to add support for new file formats.
See README.Debian for more informations on supported formats.

we have on the system old version of the package!!!
Hope this will help you to solve the issue.