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Posted by clkenton
Does anyone know how to get the p990 to play WMA files? My whole music collection is in this format so I am a little miffed that the phone cannot play these files.


Posted by psikey
You can't.

Most none Windows devices won't as the manufacturer would have to pay a licence fee to Microsoft which is also the reason software developers don't add compatibility either.

Don't think any Symbian device has ever played wma files.

Posted by joel80
Why do anyone have audio in windows media format?? Gah! Another thing that Microsoft tries to take over..


NETSCAPE-INTERNET EXPLORER
ICQ-MSN
and now
MP3-WMA???

No.. this time they can't win!! Or can they?

Posted by jakontil
Symbian s60 n s80 surely play wma wif a patch, may b just a matter of time for UIQ?

Posted by dpat
My W950i plays WMA happily (much better than it does realmedia!)

Posted by psikey
Learn something new everyday! I stand corrected and therefore the question is why not the P990i???

Posted by mamoulian
Sorry I can't help with onboard WMA playing but I do know that there are music management programs which will automatically transcode files as it transfers them to the device (or memory stick).

I use Amarok (on linux) and have set it to transcode to ogg at medium-quality when transferring to the P910. All of my CDs are stored as high-bitrate mp3s which I don't need just for headphone use, and I only have a 1gb MS. It happily does wma since there are wma codecs for linux.

As for programs to run on windows - maybe itunes, musicmatch jukebox, something like that.

Posted by kazador07
try WMA-PLUS for symbian UIQ !
this app can open wma files in symbian UIQ (sorry bad english)


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