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WMA support
DanManners:
This is odviously...well, odvious, but I have a feeling that he never actually wrote any code lol
Speedforneed:
--- Quote from: Weenesman1352 on September 07, 2006, 11:24:58 PM ---This is odviously...well, odvious, but I have a feeling that he never actually wrote any code lol
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Well, if that was true, then what is this? http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/4984
Edit: I suppose that one is out of date though.
L:
I simply think it's better and easily to convert it to other formats. Why rip in WMA anyway? It's a crappy format =/
Speedforneed:
--- Quote from: L on September 08, 2006, 12:41:31 AM ---I simply think it's better and easily to convert it to other formats. Why rip in WMA anyway? It's a crappy format =/
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Well, I can give you a couple (good?) reasons. (I'm not a WMA person, I use WavPack.) That being said...
1. WMA comes standard on all most PCs these days with Windows installed. MP3's do too, but it's not the default rip setting.
a. Supporting WMAs just would just make it easier for the not-so computer savy users.
2. They are advertised to be just as good as MP3s. (I see the WMA 64KBPS == MP3 128KBPS comparison a lot.)
a. Assuming that was actually true (or just taken seriously), a user would just twice as much audio on that device.
3. Some files are originally WMA, so why lose quality converting again to another lossy format?
a. I'm not sure I'd want a WMA file converted to a WavPack file... Kind of defeats the purpose of WavPack (in a sense anyway).
I think that is the end of my list. I see these being valid reasons for using WMA.
That being said, I would love to see a WMA decoder sometime. I know it would make a lot of people happy.
Oh, and just out of curiosity, in the sense of "Rockbox will be officially supported on, and released for, this player when all it's original firmwares features work in Rockbox", does that go for just the hardware devices, or also the codecs that it was originally designed to play?
Atheistic Freedom:
Psh, better than ATRAC ;)
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