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WMA again
saratoga:
--- Quote from: techSage on June 19, 2006, 08:43:03 PM ---
--- Quote from: Llorean ---Also, where did you get that the PortalPlayer chip natively supports WMA? Are you using "supports" in the sense that it's a multipurpose processor and can decode anything someone writes a codec for?
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I'm using "supports" in the sense that the chip (PP5021C-TDF, functionally similar to PP5020) is capable of (see PP5020 brief from PortalPlayer) "Real-time decoding of MP3, WMA, AAC, and ACELP.NET formats."
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So in other words, yes you're using it in exactly the sense Llorean suggested :)
Corius:
Just out of curiosity (might be off topic a bit) I was wondering what is the personal preference for codecs on rockbox, personally most of my music is mp3. Whats are good codec for good quality/ good file size? I've used FLAC but on my iPod earphones theres not much difference, If I were to buy new earphones what ones get a good reccomendation?
Even if WMA is a lossy format, there could be lots of people like me who's music collection is in WMA and like you said converting it would cause further degradation, my pc is quite old and i had lots of music in WMA because i only played music on my pc as I've only recently jumped on the portable media wagon in the last couple of years, my first DAP was a sony mini disc player (the memories) then a Philips Jukebox( they are pure satanic evil, it went to the service centre 5 times) and now i have my 5G iPod which is basically now surgically attached to me as i never go anywhere with out it. But anyways i think this would some people who dont want to convert their music, if it ever gets implemented.
Febs:
--- Quote from: Corius on June 20, 2006, 09:39:24 AM ---Just out of curiosity (might be off topic a bit) I was wondering what is the personal preference for codecs on rockbox, personally most of my music is mp3. Whats are good codec for good quality/ good file size? I've used FLAC but on my iPod earphones theres not much difference, If I were to buy new earphones what ones get a good reccomendation?
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This question should really be in a different thread.
techSage:
--- Quote from: saratoga on June 20, 2006, 12:27:41 AM ---So in other words, yes you're using it in exactly the sense Llorean suggested :)
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The implication was that you needed to coerce the processor into decoding WMA when, in fact, its specs show that it can handle it natively.
Mighty Sparrow:
Any news on the WMA decoder development?
Where are we up to, Marsdaddy? It seems that you made some good progress and it would be a shame if your hard work never made it into Rockbox.
Even if you don't have time at the moment, several other people have offered to help and loads of people eager to use it :)
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