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The never-ending, never completely working project
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--- Quote from: TheHarbinger on August 18, 2007, 04:51:42 PM ---
If you want a stable release for your platform, then pitch in and help code one. I'm not a coder, don't plan on being one, and don't have the time or patience to do it anyway. I'm just a user who would (gladly) pay a sum ($20 perhaps?) for a finished product.
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Rockbox is a project that people work on in their free time as a hobby, we do not produce any kind of "product". And peope temd to do what they think is fun when they play with their hobby, and wht they think is fun is rarely what the "users" think they should do...
EDIT: also btw there is an old saying, "software is never finished, it's abandoned" that answers part of your question.
TheHarbinger:
--- Quote from: saratoga on August 18, 2007, 05:59:29 PM ---
--- Quote from: TheHarbinger on August 18, 2007, 04:51:42 PM ---(namely WMA which doesn't really work and which I wanted to use the software for), et cetera, et cetera. Â
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How does WMA not work?
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Saratoga--
I last tried loading WMAs into Rockbox in May, in anticipation for a trip. I tried several dozen files; all would play in media player, Quicktime, Winamp...no problem. Some files under Rockbox would show only partial data on the display, some none at all. None of the files would play. The on-screen display would indicate the file was playing sometimes, sometimes the display would be totally frozen. I ended up transcoding about 800 files over a week's time into MP3s just so the player would play them. In consulting the forum, I found several threads about WMAs, and one poster was pointed to a thread that talked about the WMA portion of the software. THe statement was that, I believe, only one bitrate was supported and that playback was choppy.
Llorean:
Please don't make statements about something "not working" based on a several month old version of the software, then.
Have you tried WMA this month? This week? Today? In fact, I'd like to see where you found discussion of any sort of WMA support, since as far as I know Rockbox had no built-in WMA code back then.
In all honesty, it seems that were you to critique a project, you should be doing so based on the current status, rather than the status from several months ago. While I'm aware we have problems, you might want to point out the current ones. ;)
saratoga:
--- Quote from: TheHarbinger on August 18, 2007, 10:00:43 PM ---
I last tried loading WMAs into Rockbox in May, in anticipation for a trip.
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Well, since I (or maybe it was linuxstb since I didn't have SVN access) added the WMA decoder on 3 July 2007, I'm guessing you had some trouble.
--- Quote from: TheHarbinger on August 18, 2007, 10:00:43 PM --- I tried several dozen files; all would play in media player, Quicktime, Winamp...no problem. Some files under Rockbox would show only partial data on the display, some none at all. None of the files would play. The on-screen display would indicate the file was playing sometimes, sometimes the display would be totally frozen.
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What happened when you tried a build that included WMA support?
--- Quote from: TheHarbinger on August 18, 2007, 10:00:43 PM ---In consulting the forum, I found several threads about WMAs, and one poster was pointed to a thread that talked about the WMA portion of the software. THe statement was that, I believe, only one bitrate was supported and that playback was choppy.
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Theres no way you found that in this forum.
Job Van Dam:
Just to lighten the mood and bring some positive energy in here I just want to say:
I love my Gigabeat and the Rockbox firmware on it. At this point in our relationship I firmly believe I would take a bullet(s) for my DAP. I even named him, Funny Mikey.
Thank you to all the developers.
Thank you from Canada.
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