We are now going to need to install the Win32 DMO decoder dlls. On Debian/Ubuntu this should be as simple as: Start with making sure that mplayer is installed. This is nice and easy, we will be using the provided packages

Other architectures will not work with this method. The instructions differ depending on whether you are running Ubuntu 64 bit (amd64) or 32bit (i386). All this is done on SC 7.6, with a SB 3, running on Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot. We use a combination of the above with an extra plugin for mplayer that allows it to playback WMA lossless. With a little bit of effort it's possible to get this to work. Only after the installation of AlienBBC, both mplayer conversion methods outlined above worked for me. really-quiet -vc null -vo null -cache 64 -af volume=0,resample=44100:0:1,channels=2 -ao pcm:nowaveheader:file=/dev/fd/4 $FILE$ 4>&1 1>/dev/nullĪs suggested here, installing the AlienBBC extension might be required. I can now listen to streaming wma via mms://-url on my Squeezebox.Īlternative with mplayer without wrapper wma wav * * I named it mplayer-fifo, put it in /usr/local/bin/ and added the following to nf: Mkfifo $FIFOmplayer $1 -really-quiet -vo null -vc null -ao pcm:fast:file=$FIFO > /tmp/mplayer.out 2>&1 & I wrote the following wrapper-script around mplayer instead:

I could never make the above method work with mms://-urls. But it is possible to get it to work, see below. Lossless WMA is not currently supported on Linux. Keep this in mind if you have similar symptoms. Unfortunately I did not keep track of which version worked and which didn't. I 'downgraded' my version of ffmpeg and it worked fine after that. v 0 -i $FILE$ -f wav - | -x -m s -r -S -q 5 -s 44.1 -Īfter doing this, I still was only getting alot of click click click sounds when I played the WMA files. Most distributions will not overwrite this file upon upgrades to slimserver. Gentoo: /etc/squeezecenter/nf (most of the time this mod is done by default in the ebuild).usually: /usr/local/squeezecenter/nf (path is your installation path for slimserver).Once you have those installed and are sure they are available in your path, create, or add the following lines to, the nf file: These may come pre-packaged and configured for your particular flavour of Linux, or else they can be compiled from source from the individual projects' websites. 1.4 Getting WMA Lossless working on Linuxįirst make sure that you have both FFMpeg and LAME installed.1.2 Alternative with mplayer without wrapper.

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