mm5 ripped songs not playing on other devices [#20106]

[rubbomf]

I have been using MM for years and have a lot of songs that I have ripped from CD and load onto a usb drive. I just upgraded from MM4 to MM5, and when I put new songs on the usb they will not play on my Denon receiver or in my car. When I put old songs on the drive, they play fine. Old and new songs are ripped in WMA format from CD. If I put the jump drive into my computer, the songs will play just fine. Any ideas? I am running WIN11 and just upgraded to 5.0.4.2690.

[Lowlander]

Are you sure those devices support WMA?

[rubbomf]

Yes, my other music is WMA. Just double-checked. Also if I load the usb with the new music on it on my computer, not only mm can play it but win media player can. I have swapped old/new music to same drive to make sure it is not a hdw issue. It almost seems like a digital rights issue? This is a new win11 machine. But I was also seeing the issue before. My win10 machine was acting flaky and died and I attributed the prob to that....

[Lowlander]

MediaMonkey does not apply DRM, WMP used to do this for WMA. Does MP3 still work?

[rubbomf]

Did not try it....yet. Link to pic of properties of the old and new files notice that the new does not show verity as publisher and did not pick the writers.

https://postimg.cc/gallery/gp1xRvq

[Lowlander]

So the Dan Fogelberg is the new file? It seems to Variable Bitrate, maybe that's not supported?

[rubbomf]

I created an mp3 from cd and it plays on the Denon. so I copied the whole cd. This result was interesting the file sizes for the mp3 were slightly different. I copied the whole cd to mp3 and it works.

[rubbomf]

https://postimg.cc/z39cjm4v

[rubbomf]

So the format for WMA may have changed with MM5. I have always used WMA and not had this issue. I have about 5k songs.

[Peke]

Hi,
WMA format has not been changed for years and we can use only codecs that are supplied with windows or we and our users would need to pay MS license fees for support of WMA in MediaMonkey.

NOTE: Android devices do not play WMA tracks as Google removed WMA/WMV support as of Android 3.0

[Rob_S]

My android phone can play .wma tracks using a free music player....

If this is your issue, send me one of the tracks which won't play, I can test it. PM me for email address.

[Lowlander]

Can you ripped a previous Ripped WMA that works again? If so please provide both working and non-working WMA copies to Support: https://www.mediamonkey.com/support/

[rubbomf]

I just opened a ticket and sent links to old/new copies of a song

[Peke]

Hi,
Replied in Ticket.

[rubbomf]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ymq3y2rlse0rt ... i.wma?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bxm1yxbs0o4s9 ... Y.wma?dl=0