WMA files will not play

[astender]

I just bought an android tablet and bought subsonic 3.7. mp3 files will play but WMA will not although the discripttion says they are supposed to. Also there was nothing in the information I saw before paying for the app that said I had to upgrade it. I would not have bought it I if I had seen that. How much will that cost?

[alphawave7]

Are these drm-free WMA tracks? Where did they come from?

[astender]

These are files created by the rip function on windows media player while listening to CDs on my computer that I have purchased and want to load on my tablet. Hope that makes sense.

[alphawave7]

If they play in VLC, they're clean. IIRC, some early versions of WMP indeed added DRM to it's WMA-default rip settings, but that was in the early to mid-90's...unless MS kept doing it (I wouldn't know after finding better rip, encode, and playback software-EAC/LAME/VLC/Mediamonkey).

[gurutech]

Windows Media Player does have an option to rip to MP3 files instead of WMA. Worst case scenario is having to re-rip all your music into MP3 format.

But I would try to convert your WMA into MP3 using a converter, such as what alphawave listed. If they can't be converted, then there's some form of DRM on them.

[astender]

I just typed this in once and hit a wrong key and it must not have been posted. If this turns out to be a duplicate I'm sorry. I am unfamiliar with the acronyms vlc, iirc and DRM. What do they mean? I have not seen any way to rip to mp3 on my windows 8. Can you tell me how to do it?
Arnie

[BKKKPewsey]

May I suggest another term you may find useful "GOOGLE"

vlc="VideoLan Client"
iirc="If I Remember Correctly"
DRM="Digital Rights Management"

[alphawave7]

May I suggest another term you may find useful "GOOGLE"

vlc="VideoLan Client"
iirc="If I Remember Correctly"
DRM="Digital Rights Management"

OMG! I just realised how many acronyms I used in that post!

[rsemedo]

Hi there, any news on this? I'm a new user and having the same issue with lossless wma...everything else plays like a charm...seen on other areas people taking about different solutions for this problem, not sure....can some help? For me it's out of question, rip everything all over again....

Cheers

[astender]

I have a bunch of files but not so many that I can't re-rip them. Of course, if I do that then I have no need of subsonic.
Arnie

[GJ51]

Not to overlook the obvious - what server platform are you running on?

What transcoding string are you using?

[nigel norris]

You need wmadec in your transcode folder, download it from here

http://sourceforge.net/projects/subsoni ... oding/1.1/

Then in the settings/transcode section use

Step 1: wmadec -b 16 %s -
Step 2: lame -b %b -r - -

Actually I prefer to fix the output bitrate at 256k vbr so I use the V0 preset as in
Step 2: lame -r -V0 - -

Change V0 to whatever preset quality you want to use