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erjiang
Asked: 2014-10-04 15:30:50 +0800 CST

Playing WMA files with cmus produces static and distortion in 14.04

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I use cmus as a media player and after upgrading to 14.04, all WMA files in my collection have become unplayable. When I try playing them, I get static in my left speaker and a staticky distorted version of the music in my right speaker.

How can I fix this issue? Maybe have cmus use a different codec for wma? (WMA files still play fine in mplayer.)

14.04

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Problem is apparently related to the libavcodec/ffmpeg fork: https://github.com/cmus/cmus/issues/139

    I fixed cmus by installing libswresample-dev and the rest of the ffmpeg dev libs from this PPA (replacing the libavcodec libs):

    https://launchpad.net/~jon-severinsson/+archive/ubuntu/ffmpeg

    Then ./configure CONFIG_FFMPEG=y to make sure that ffmpeg.c works and building and replacing cmus.

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  2. I solved the problem by going to https://github.com/cmus/cmus and compiling the program from source.. I am using Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS...

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