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wma files do not play on amd64 machines

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jlee700:
No they are not the DRM protected files.

MC26 plays them, MC27 arm64 & mac play them, it is only the MC27 amd64 version that has problems with those files. I hope this observation can give a clue for finding out the reason.

bob:

--- Quote from: jlee700 on February 07, 2021, 10:53:43 pm ---No they are not the DRM protected files.

MC26 plays them, MC27 arm64 & mac play them, it is only the MC27 amd64 version that has problems with those files. I hope this observation can give a clue for finding out the reason.

--- End quote ---
Would you mind sharing the smallest one you have that doesn't play?
You could email it to bob (at) jriver (dot) com.
Thanks.

jlee700:
Mail sent on 2/9, Bob. Thanks for looking into the problem.

bob:
Tested it, it worked fine. Sorry it took that long to get to it.
wma files require the libav component to be downloaded.
MC does this automatically but needs to be connected to the internet when it first tries to play one.
If it does have internet access but still doesn't play some reasons might be that:
1) You are running on a non-debian distro which doesn't have a ca-certificates.crt in /etc/ssl/ (you can use the local one in MC. If you look in /usr/lib/jriver/Media\ Center\ 27 you will see a symlink that you can change to the local file).
2) Your downloaded plugin is corrupted. Look in ~/.jriver/Media\ Center\ 27/plugins. Perhaps delete anything in there, MC will re-download. Make sure directory ownership hasn't been changed from the user running MC.

jlee700:
Bob,

My system is debian with internet access. I run the docker version of MC by shiomax, but I am not sure if docker is to blame as a friend of mine who runs a non-docker version has experienced similar problem... My server does not have an audio output as it only serves the music files to other MC clients, by the way.

I deleted the plugins and ran the MC, and the plugins were downloaded but it failed to convert the wma files to mp3.

I tried connecting my iphone to a raspberry pi 4 client. It converted wma files ok, but then it failed to convert many flac files, notably hi-resolution files (96kHz/24bit)... Disabling the transcoding, the iphone can play flac and m4a files ok but no wma files. It seems that the only way for me to play everything on iphone is to use MC26.

Could you check if the conversion works fine on MC27? I set jremote to transcode everything to High (320kbps) quality mp3.

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