Guest timfimjim Posted March 8, 2012 Report Share Posted March 8, 2012 (edited) Back on my trusty blade, I couldn't ever play wma files. Still got the same problem on my skate. Very annoying! Having looked into it, I found that as Android is Linux, Gingerbread didn't support windows files (wma). A few forums have said that poweramp plays them, but I don't want to purchase a £3 app just to play songs in a certain format... Surely there should be a codec that can be flashed to sort this out? What is it that poweramp installs that lets it play wma? Any ideas? Thanks Edit: I'm currently on Ice Armour III (cm7) Edited March 8, 2012 by timfimjim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PedroVader Posted March 8, 2012 Report Share Posted March 8, 2012 Back on my trusty blade, I couldn't ever play wma files. Still got the same problem on my skate. Very annoying! Having looked into it, I found that as Android is Linux, Gingerbread didn't support windows files (wma). A few forums have said that poweramp plays them, but I don't want to purchase a £3 app just to play songs in a certain format... Surely there should be a codec that can be flashed to sort this out? What is it that poweramp installs that lets it play wma? Any ideas? Thanks Edit: I'm currently on Ice Armour III (cm7) Nope, Poweramp is currently the only way, and if wma is your chosen format, 3 quid is nothing really if it gets the result you want. I had issues when I uploaded my music collection to Google Music, totally ignored 2 albums for precisely that reason. just re-encoded them to MP3 like the other 5k songs, job done. In a world where there's unfortunately a lot of "us and them" between the 3 big players, it's worth going for the path of least resistance, which will always be MP3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tillaz Posted March 8, 2012 Report Share Posted March 8, 2012 (edited) yeah, i didn't like this about the skate... my lg 2x plays wmv, wma, mkv, avi and just about everything straight out the box the new zte phones will be the same since they use the tegra chip set aswell Edited March 8, 2012 by tillaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest timfimjim Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 In the end I just went for poweramp, it's a pretty good player too. Yeah I think you're right, so much us and them. Having looked into it, it looks like about the time windows filed a lawsuit on google that google stopped supporting wma! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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