How to extract audio from long movies

[jorgensen]

I have a 3 year old Samsung J2 mobile phone which runs Android Nougat (version 7) and have no problems playing WMA sound files.

Depends on the player you are using, where manufacturers have there opinion what the stock player should play.
I use the Poweramp app, and it plays any format

[Davidk]

Why my android 8 phone won't play .wma is a mystery. It took me a while to find the initial cause, which is simply that even tho the wma file(s) are in the device memory, choose music and they simply are not displayed: and not being displayed, cannot be selected/played. I got around this by converting wma to mp3 and all is fixed.

[jparnold]

I didn't try placing the WMA file into my phone's memory I copied it to my (phone's) micro SD card. Anyway when I check the specs of my phone it states that it can access WMA (as well as MP3). I have found since ceating this thread that WMA files are noticably smaller than MP3 so take up less 'space'. Not sure if they sound as good but I only use ear 'buds' which probably wouldn't show any difference. I DID notice though that the name displayed by my phone is not what I expect and maybe this is why you can't 'see' the file. Try copying the WMA to a (micro) SD card (placing it in the MUSIC folder and then have a look. MP3 files contain a lot of data such as 'name of tune', 'artist', album name etc etc and maybe WMA don't which might be the reason I don't 'see' my WMA file listed as I would expect. ALSO I use 'Google Play' to play sound files on my (Android) phone.