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WMA support
Llorean:
I believe WMA support has been unofficially exempted from that requirement, mainly because nobody wants to have to be the one to do it.
As it is, simply put, if you own the CD, you can rip to a better format. If you don't own the CD then your use of the music is probably infringing someone's copyright as it is. Rockbox will never be able to support DRMed WMA anyway.
Mmmm:
--- Quote from: Llorean on September 08, 2006, 01:13:30 AM ---If you don't own the CD then your use of the music is probably infringing someone's copyright as it is.
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Well, that's not true..there is loads of non-DRM'd free and non copyright infringing music to be downloaded out there...
Yotto:
--- Quote from: Mmmm on September 08, 2006, 03:15:42 AM ---Well, that's not true..there is loads of non-DRM'd free and non copyright infringing music to be downloaded out there...
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In WMA format?
Mmmm:
--- Quote from: Yotto on September 08, 2006, 03:20:50 AM ---
--- Quote from: Mmmm on September 08, 2006, 03:15:42 AM ---Well, that's not true..there is loads of non-DRM'd free and non copyright infringing music to be downloaded out there...
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In WMA format?
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Probably.......somewhere :D
Febs:
--- Quote from: Speedforneed on September 08, 2006, 01:10:56 AM ---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.
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That claim was made, by Microsoft, years ago, using a then-current WMA encoder compared to a then-outdate MP3 encoder. Even if the claim were once true--and I've never seen any listening tests that show that it was--it is no longer so. The LAME codec has made huge strides since then.
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