How do I read wma files?

Question

I find many audio files on limewire as wma. These have a comparatively small size (typically less than 50 KB), and they do NOT play on winamp or windows media or real player on my PC. How do I open them and play them? Please help.

Answer 1

download the latest version of windows media player, it 'll play in the media player.

Answer 2

Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a proprietary compressed audio file format developed by Microsoft. It was initially intended to be a competitor to the popular MP3 format, though in terms of popularity of WMA files versus mp3 files, this never came close to occuring. With the introduction of Apple's iTunes Music Store, WMA has positioned itself as a competitor to the Advanced Audio Coding format used by Apple and is part of Microsoft's Windows Media framework.

Apart from Windows Media Player, WMA files can be played using MPlayer, Winamp (with certain limitations — DSP plugin support and DirectSound output is disabled using the default WMA plugin), RealPlayer, and many other media players. The FFmpeg project has reverse-engineered and reimplemented the WMA format to allow its use on POSIX compliant operating systems such as Linux, and RealNetworks has announced plans to support playing non-DRMed WMA files in RealPlayer for Linux

Answer 3

wma files are Windows Media Audio files....they will play on Windows Media Player.

Answer 4

WMA stands for windows media audio,therefore they will play on windows media player.

Answer 5

The file shud run with windows media player...if it is not, then the problem must be with the codecs. Ur system must not be having necessary codecs to run .wma files...search "k-Lite Codec Pack" on google (or any other suitable codec which supports .wma file) and install it. That will definetly work.

Answer 6

the .WMA format stands for "windows media audio", and should play just fine in Windows Media Player. If not, try CoolEdit PRO, it has great file compatibility; if they don't work in there, they are just bad files.

Cool Edit PRO: http://www.adobe.com/special/products/audition/syntrillium.html

Answer 7

attempt checking your settings in nero, burning to a properly acceptable dvd, making confident your participant is properly acceptable with those dvds. possibly Nero thinks you're backing up some thing, or you didnt enable it end ultimate the consultation. (Nero does that on the top.) Or your dvd participant will be too previous. If no longer, Ive had extremely some problems with previous burners in my computing device, have yet another one? For compatibilities, you seek for both DVD- or DVD+ formats.

Answer 8

with wmp.