amarok does not play wma files in ubuntu 14.04

[Roman]

In KUbuntu 14.04, when trying to play a WMA file, Amarok says that it needs an additional plugin, e.g. "Decoder Windows Media Audio 8". Running the proposed search for the plugin yields no results.

The bug is likely related to the removal of the package gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg, see bug 1275556. In another system with 14.04, where this package was occasionally left from some older installation, WMA is played normally. However it seems that the genuine reason is in the Amarok itself, which looks not properly tuned to work with the updated audio libraries. Other audio players that I have installed can play WMA with no error.

Running "gst-inspect | grep wma" gives only "typefindfunctions: video/x-ms-asf: asf, wm, wma, wmv". In the ubuntu 14.04 system with the old package gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg this command identifies several available WMA codecs.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2014-March/038150.html

[Roman (m01brv)]

Is there some way to fix the issue at least locally? Perhaps by editing some files or adding an additional .desktop file binding WMA format to the up-to-date gstreamer codec?

[Roman (m01brv)]

Had just installed a fat bunch of updates coming to KUbuntu 14.04, including app-install-data package. No apparent change, amarok still does not play wma, and gst-inspect does not find the codec.

[Roman (m01brv)]

Changing package name to the correct one (there is no "app-install-data-ubuntu" package)

[Roman (m01brv)]

Apparently the bug was fixed with some of the today of yesterday updates. There were several packages related to gstreamer that were updated.

To be sure, this weekend I'll check what I have at another computer.

However, "gst-inspect" still does not report any plugin related to wma, thought perhaps it might be unnecessary for the normal functioning.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This is likely a duplicate of bug 1278284 then which was recently fixed.

[Roman (m01brv)]

Brian, that bug is related to the "sessioninstaller" package that was never installed in my system (I use KUbuntu, maybe sessioninstaller is not used in KDE?). It cannot be a duplicate of that bug therefore.

However, it was fixed anyway and that is enough for me.

[Evan Leibovitch (evan-telly)]

I'm current with Kubuntu as of today (2014-05-08) and VLC will still not play WMV files.