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WMA support?

Are there any ROM versions out there that supports WMA audio files please? (is it included in Froyo at all?). all my music is in WMA format - I i don't really want to re-rip it, or degrade it by further by running a format conversion program on it.
(I'm being lazy!). I new I shouldn't have been suckered by the Ms hype when I starting ripping stuff for my MS windows phone all those years ago :-(
Thx
Graham

I used to be able to play wma files w/ CM rom.....unfortunately it's still not supported in Froyo....

I don't suppose there is an apk file that provides the capability its there? I cant see anything on the market.

[Q] Problem playing FLAC files :(

No possible playing FLAC audio files on GALAXY S after FROYO flashing.If i have FLAC files on SD cards,and started standart Music Player,Galaxy frozen Another music players no working too.. On ECLAIR all playing without problem. Sorry about my bad english.

Hi,
no problem for me with standard player on JPM+CF_Root+voodoo.

vadda said:
Hi,
no problem for me with standard player on JPM+CF_Root+voodoo.
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Sorry for off tooic, but how did u put cf root + voodoo on ur phone? Cause 4 me voodoo overflashed cf root. Do u have 2e recovery on ur phone now?
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Hi,
Have you try to put your. Flac in the internal sd, for me it's working with docrom based on jm9
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Make sure the flac files are 16bit, as it will refuse to play 24bit files.
Tony

1. I have 2e recovery.
2. No want downgrade losless qualite my music(2.1 playing everything without problem).
3. rom - Goodbye RFS 0.2 (another 2.2 have this problem to)

I've got same problem with playing flac files... not all, but some of them, mainly Hemi-Sync records (90 mins long). With 2.1 no problem, with 2.2 phone crashes!

[OFF TOPIC/] Flac on a portable device is just .....
FLAC is scientifically not worth the hard disk space, if your only goal in encoding to this format is to listen.
The reasoning behind this fact stems from the intelligent nature of the lossy encoding process. If you take any MP3 or AAC file of standard encoding rate (192K or higher), and polarity inverse it with the same file as a FLAC, you will hear very little difference between the two. This is because even though you've taken a lot of information out of that lossy file to make it so compact, the frequencies taken out of a compressed file are frequencies the ear does not respond well to. No human ear can detect the frequencies removed from any 320K MP3 file because the frequencies are either extremely high-pitched (well above 22k) or extremely obscure and irrelevant (a very specific frequency like 12.5008k or something like this).
Anybody who says they can hear the difference between a standardly-compressed MP3 file and its FLAC counterpart is either lying, suffering from placebo, or needs to tell me where I can get a drug that would heighten somebody's senses that much.
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And we all know that the sound that come out from our SGS is far from perfect that why supercurio try to improve it but listening to something over 192Kbps on a mobile device is just waste of space. It's like saying that you want to use a 1920x1080 image on your sgs screen and that you can tell the difference ..... 192 and higher is not for listening.
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It doesn't work because it's Goodby RFS and sztumpy has given not enough memory to the system for flac music that might be why with a 20MB file it freeze the player

I have same problem on all 2.2 My solution is to use another player. It's working fine on player pro, and now on poweramp. There is one tip that maybe help you: player pro is crashing too when you try to play flac if you browsing your music library by albums. When you switch to folders without album arts is ok. I'm no longer investigating this since I'm on doc and kalpik froyo v5.1 and poweramp player. It's tiptop now.
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exadeci said:
[OFF TOPIC/] Flac on a portable device is just .....
And we all know that the sound that come out from our SGS is far from perfect that why supercurio try to improve it but listening to something over 192Kbps on a mobile device is just waste of space. It's like saying that you want to use a 1920x1080 image on your sgs screen and that you can tell the difference ..... 192 and higher is not for listening.
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It doesn't work because it's Goodby RFS and sztumpy has given not enough memory to the system for flac music that might be why with a 20MB file it freeze the player
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Yea i would disagree with that, you will definitely hear the difference between 192 and Flac is you use high end IEMs, even more if you listen to music through a good full size amp with speakers. Well that's my opinion at least
Back to the issue at hand, my flac files work fine and i'm under jp6 ("vanilla" jp6)

K0v4L said:
I have same problem on all 2.2 My solution is to use another player. It's working fine on player pro, and now on poweramp. There is one tip that maybe help you: player pro is crashing too when you try to play flac if you browsing your music library by albums. When you switch to folders without album arts is ok. I'm no longer investigating this since I'm on doc and kalpik froyo v5.1 and poweramp player. It's tiptop now.
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Tested this ROM today...

[ROM] Doc_Kalpik Froyo JP6/JPM V5.1.1 no change situation.Problem have to

WMA files??

am I the only one who cant get WMA files to run???? half of my music is WMA and I cant get it to play in android at all.....
any suggestions on a fix??

http://www.jodix.com/ worked for me.

yea I was hoping I wouldnt have to convert them all back to mp3.... I ripped them into wma to save on space on my old phone to begine with... even made sure there was no DRM protection on the files so that they would play on most anything... but looking around it seems there isnt any real support for WMA files on android.... some phone will play them(looks like most of them have NEON support in the chips though) but most android phones dont do WMA
thanks for the link that looks like some decent freeware apps to convert files though!!!!!!

PowerAMP. Should be stock player. Awesome. Paid though. No need to covert it plays all files.
Kyo M6000 Rooted with NoAds or Bloatware.

Yea that looks like me only option.. poweramp looks realy nice! Thanks for the suggestion
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PowerAMP. Should be stock player. Awesome. Paid though. No need to covert it plays all files.
Kyo M6000 Rooted with NoAds or Bloatware.
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it is super nice. EQ, with preamp, Cover Art, all kinds of stuff. Plus the major bonus of not having to hastle with converting all your WMA into MP3 and so on. Just put the music on your SD and go. WAY nicer then the stock music app

only some wma files play on my defy
I just paid for upgrade to power amp and still some wma files do not play on my defy. using 2.2.1 and have always been able to play only some of my wma files, even with stock music player. I even plugged the phone into a pc that does not have these music files on it, and was able to navigate to them on the sd card and play fine from the pc, so can't be corrupt filers right? have tried many diff't android market players but same results on all. any ideas? thanks.

Its a rights issue i would imagine. Never had a problem. Try writing the application developer.
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[Q] WMA not supported?

I recently flashed to MIUI, but I've been using the MIUI music app for quite some time. After flashing the newest ROM, still using MIUI, the media player isn't recognizing any of my WMA music files, only MP3.
I'm pretty sure previous versions of MIUI music have supported WMA, is there a plugin I can get or anything? I've tried looking through the settings but haven't found anything relative =/

Bumping for a look, anybody have a clue how to include these?

Ok, last try then I'll give up

Try to change music player... Maybe PowerAmp... Btw... Don't use wma in my opinion.....
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Wma is a ****ty format. Use flac or mp3
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Miui Android and WMA Files

I'm currently runnuing MIUI Android GingerBread ROM 2.4.20 and I must say it's simply the best ROM I've ever used. It's almost as if it was built with me in mind.
Fast, stable, easy to use and on the eye interface. Brilliant.
I've installed and run the ICS version and as good as it is, there's one thing that's missing: What happened to the music player's ability to play WMA files? I have over 400 albums that I've encoded in WMA format due to small file size (1/5 of mp3 filesize) and I honestly cannot tell the difference between mp3 and wma over my headphones and in the car. Any ROM tips and/or advice on how to do this avoiding 3rd party app like TTPod? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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I'm currently runnuing MIUI Android GingerBread ROM 2.4.20 and I must say it's simply the best ROM I've ever used. It's almost as if it was built with me in mind.
Fast, stable, easy to use and on the eye interface. Brilliant.
I've installed and run the ICS version and as good as it is, there's one thing that's missing: What happened to the music player's ability to play WMA files? I have over 400 albums that I've encoded in WMA format due to small file size (1/5 of mp3 filesize) and I honestly cannot tell the difference between mp3 and wma over my headphones and in the car. Any ROM tips and/or advice on how to do this avoiding 3rd party app like TTPod? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Mayby not the best solution but dude... WMA ? why WMA ? WINDOWS MEDIA AUDIO... WINDOWS... dude.. It's like making FLAC file from MP3, you CAN do it but WHY?!
I would go for MP3 using VBR which give you good quality and lower file size or lower the bitrate there is less problem with MP3 than with WMA. But it's your way to store music. And if you happy with that - thats great.
Did you try .. winamp for android ? --- oh, you didnt want 3rd party app...
Like I said, WMA was made by Microsoft which is close for community. So I doube there is a easy/clean way to play those files without 3rd party apps.

try other music player like winamph
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Now your on ics, you can use the great apollo music player. Dont know for sure if it supports wma though.. but i gues it does. I'll post .apk file bellow.
This is stock music player from cm9. It is very good, downloads album covers by its self. It fully supports lockscreen control, notification bar control and widget control (apollo wodget that is )
Just give it a try, you wont regret it
P.s.1: sorry for bad english
P.s.2: hit thanks if i helped and apollo can play .wma files!
P.s.3: i'll upload file to 4shared, will post later this evening
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http://www.4shared.com/android/b1LxbjZ3/comandrewapollo.html
4shared link to apollo.apk
Sometimes you have to wait 20 seconds, but ik hope that wont be a problem
Edit: just confirmed that when you download it via mobile, you will need to sign up. Via laptop browser is free and you dont need to sign up.
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I dont get it, just because it isn't open source (why would you actually need open soucre music files....), they make a music player wich supports a lot of music types, but they dont let it play the world second-most used music file type... that sucks... but what can i do about it...
well there are other music players in the store wich are also awsome, like doubletwist player! I used it i while, before i got to apollo, i hop that solves your problem
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Android and WMA
Thanks one and all for your advice.
As mentioned, my choosing WMA files is purely practical asI can store 4 times as many MP3's on my phone.
I had to settle for PowerAmp which not only supports WMA files but also seems to read all ID3 tags perfectly (on MIUI GB I had to download ID3Fixer to read artist tag).

I'm back with a quick update: Still no joy getting WMA files to play on stock music player on MIUI 2.8.10. I did flash King Soft 2.10.26 and though I did not find the ROM stable enough for me, the stock player did play WMA files (without ID3 Tagging as with older versions). I attempted copying the .apk into the .zip file before flashing but after flashing, Music doesn't appear as one of the applications. Apparently this may have to do with how system apk's are deeply embedded within the ROMS on JellyBean. If anyone has any advice in porting system app, (Specifically Music.apk) from JB to ICS, I'm all ears.

For those still interested, you'll be happy to know that the MIUI ROM 3.2.8 supports WMA playback. Kudos must go the the developers who knowingly/unknowingly fixed this issue. Unfortunately the issue of artist ID3 tags not being read persists but you can download the ID3Tag Fix app and it'll sort it out for you. I'm still using PowerAmp for this and my collection of now 4,500+ music files still fits comfortably on my 8GB memory card.