I pushed some WMA files to emulator yesterday, and I found all of these music files can be played well by the music player, So I was confused. I found that Android 1.5 didn't support the WMA codec, which is announced in the SDK documentation. I also didn't find a WMA decoder in PV OMX. How does this happen?

On my PC, I have a library of WMA files that I have ripped from CDs using iTunes. About 6 months ago I got Google's Pixel phone, and wanted to load a bunch of the music onto my phone. A quick online search told me I should just be able to copy it to the **Music** folder on my phone. I did so, and I got a popup telling me it might not play in its current format, and did I want to convert it before copying? I clicked "Yes", and the music was copied, and showed up in Google Play Music. Recently I got the Pixel 2, and went through the same steps to copy music to my phone, but after copying it I don't see any of it in Google Play Music. I installed VLC and it can see/play the music, but it has very limited capabilities as a music player and isn't compatible with the Google Assistant, so I'd really rather use Play Music. I tried copying an MP3 file onto the phone, and that shows up in Play Music, so it must have something to do with the format. I'd really rather not have to convert my entire music library en masse to MP3. I'm running Android Oreo 8.0.0. I've verified that there is no .nomedia file in the **Music** folder. * **Is there some difference between the Pixel and Pixel 2 that prevents Google Play Music from seeing WMA files on the Pixel 2?** * **Is there something else I might need to do to be able to play them?** ---- **EDIT**: I tried @Abochur's suggestion in the comments of playing a file via the file manager, and it would not play from there, which indicates to me that there is a problem with the file. I tried re-copying one of the files onto the phone, and again I was asked if I wanted the file to be converted so that it could be played, but again it was not recognized once it was on the phone. I would still like to know why this method worked on my original Pixel but doesn't seem to work on my Pixel 2, and if there's any way to have my music appear in Google Play Music without mass-converting all of it to a different format.

My LG Nexus 4 (Android 4.2.2) does not play my .wma audio files. However, my generic/budget Android 4.0.3 tablet plays the same .wma files just fine. - Why? - How can I get my Android device to play .wma files?

I'm using android 2.2 on a stock Nexus one (from the pre-developer phone stage). Should the music player be able to cope with WMAs? I'm sure I've seen references to it coping with them, but they are currently just dead weight on the SD card. I actually quite like the stock player so installing a new player is the fallback option.

I'm using an HTC Desire with 2.2 and the stock media player annoyingly sorts the tracks in alphabetical order. According to MediaMonkey the files have the correct track order tag in them. Is there a media player that sorts the tracks correctly? (I've also tried Winamp and btunes at this point).