Hey, this has been annoying me for a while, I recently installed Ubuntu after being on Mint (after being on Ubuntu) for a while. So as you do I installed all the media codecs that didn't come by default, the thing is, Rhythmbox doesn't see my wma files - the codec to play them is installed, it just thinks they're not there. Banshee can see them and they play just fine.
If it's any help, all my media is on an NTFS drive which apparently is owned by root. I don't know how that works to be honest. I used NTFS config to automount my NTFS drive but that's buggy on Maverick: It automounts my drive on boot up (hooray) but everything is owned by root, I'm thinking that's why Rhythmbox totally blanks my poor wma's, but that's only a guess.
I haven't ventured into /etc/fstab yet to check all that because that scares the shit out of me and I'm a pussy.
Good thing is, Ubuntu 11.whatever will include Banshee rather than Rhythmbox.
But the point is I don't want to use Banshee, in fact, I'm using it out of necessity - I would like Rhythmbox to work, does anyone have any ideas?
Did you download the gstreamer audio restricted extras or something?
Banshee > Rhythmbox.
It feels lighter too. I'm glad to hear Rhythmbox is finally being dropped. :D
QuikKill: Yeah the codec to play wma files is installed, they play fine in Banshee, Rhythmbox doesn't see them.
Carl.: This question was about getting Rhythmbox to see my wma's. I'm aware people have a different personal preference over media players to me.
Does it play if you manually play it with rhythmbox, or is it just not indexing them?
Rhythmbox won't even play them, if I right click -> open with, which is puzzling, because Banshee will. I'm thoroughly stumped.
Looks like the short answer is > You can't. At least not yet.
Just to be clear I have had Rhythmbox play wma's in the past, it's just this new install that it's not working. I think until I convert all my wma's to mp3's I'll just have to use Banshee.
Speaking of that though, I've put all my wma's in a folder (with sub-folders for album names) so does anyway know of a way I can recursively look through a folder and convert all wma's?
[QUOTE=JenkinsJ;28350489]Just to be clear I have had Rhythmbox play wma's in the past, it's just this new install that it's not working. I think until I convert all my wma's to mp3's I'll just have to use Banshee.
Speaking of that though, I've put all my wma's in a folder (with sub-folders for album names) so does anyway know of a way I can recursively look through a folder and convert all wma's?[/QUOTE]
"Sound Converter" in Synaptic can convert folders of wmas into MP3, ogg, wav, etc.
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