Playing Windows media files on 64-bit kubuntu

[Rob Blomquist]

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 14:59, Thomas Sperre wrote:

> Today i moved all the music files over from the old computer, let amarok
> compile the collection. I noticed all the old .wmas were in there, a
> change, as in the previous amaroK version i had installed on my old 32-bit
> the .wma's were not even registered in the collection database.
> Out of the curiousity i just had to click on some of my old favourites.
> Voila - it plays "Forever today"....:-) And now comes "Gold for the prize
> of Silver"....weeeehaa!
>
> I don't think i have any special packages installed to fix this, just stuff
> from the various kubuntu repositories. Which package works these wonders?

In order to play stuff than needs special codecs, you need to run the 32 bit 
version of the app. And you can use the program "linux32" to trick the 64 bit 
version to let you install it, then you need to do the same thing with all 
the codecs you need.

Because this was such a hassle, I moved my 64 bit machine back to 32 bit 
Ubuntu, and will be waiting for everything to go 64 bits before I jump back 
on the wagon.

Rob
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Mountlake Terrace, WA