(update) Audacious

[winestein]

the new audacious seems cool so far   but the wma plugin is not there i cant play all my music now. There might be more plugins missing but I'm not sure

[Texstar]

2.3 no longer provides a wma plugin.

[wayne1932]

Will the wma plugin that is used in 2.1 still work for 2.3?   

 I just checked synaptic and if I install 2.3, it does not remove the wma plugin that is there for 2.1. 

Don't want to lose that just to get some undefined "improvement" in 2.3. 

[winestein]

no  wayne1932 it won't work , I updated to 2.3 and its gone, also streambrowser plugin lists stations but wont play music   but the rest  of  the program seems to run well

[T6]

a option is convert wma to mp3, ogg or flac

can't remember what app can do this, mp3 is the usual choice

[Texstar]

Moving this to software discussion as it is not a broken package but an update to an old package that had more functionality.

[T6]

but it was broken and now it doesn't 

doing a search on their forum this is happening since version 2.2, we had version 2.1 for almost one year?

http://boards.audacious-media-player.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=115&p=322&hilit=wma#p322

http://boards.audacious-media-player.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=55&p=154&hilit=wma#p154

it is mentioned this package audacious-plugins-freeworld-wma-2.1-1.fc12.i686 that seems to be compatible with audacious 2.3 but seems to be done by a "third party" so maybe development stopped for this not that popular anymore fileformat

more on german here

http://www.fedoraforum.de/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19674&p=110034#p110034

fortunately there is options in pclinux, audacious is not the only audio player and still those files can be converted with the proper tool, i believe that even vlc can do it