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WMA support
baobab68:
I was actually snooping around in the Patch Tracker with the intent of finding out what had been done so far, and there I find Marsdaddy has uploaded his WIP effort only yesterday.
Cool.
I'm not a C programmer but I'm going to take a look anyway.
Anyone care to comment about the differences in fixed point versus floating point coding? That's the part I have always wondered about.
Febs:
--- Quote from: baobab68 on September 16, 2006, 02:51:17 AM ---You're right, and when I said it I was quoting one of the senior devs of the Rockbox project.
--- End quote ---
No, you weren't.
And even if you had quoted someone, what exactly is the point of quoting something from some other thread and then complaining that you are being bashed in this thread by the quote that you yourselve injected into this thread?
Llorean:
I'm assuming he's referring to the old quote, that I'm paraphrasing here, that says something like "Someone with a clue needs to do the work to convert a WMA codec, and unfortunately most of those with a clue don't use WMA."
This quote happened on a different thread, and I *believe* it happened in different forums (Misticriver) though it is properly attributed to a core developer. But it doesn't call users dumb. There's a difference between cluelessness (which suggests merely lack of knowledge) and dumb (which suggests lack of intelligence) as the former can be fixed.
So what we have is one person's opinion, voiced somewhere else. It is *not* the topic of discussion here, independent of who voiced that opinion.
Davide-NYC:
Everyone drop it. (please)
I do not use WMA, I never will. But another feather in Rockbox's 'hat' is always welcome.
Rockbox shouldn't be about politics. (or presumed politics) It should just OWN based on it's merits.
It already blows away (in my opinion) all commercial firmwares I've seen thus far, but why rest on one's laurels? We can make it better... together!
WMA decoding would just be one less format Rockbox can't read. Making the switch even more painless for the newbies. Rockbox users will most likely transition away from WMA in time anyway based on the merits of other formats... but they have to become Rockbox users in the first place. If their whole music library is WMA this will never happen until WMA decoding works in Rockbox.
The last remaining decoder after WMA would be M4A in real time. Then we can simply shake our head at the detractors of Rockbox. (do they even exist?) ;)
The release of some semi-working code is very welcome news. I know there is a ton of work to do so good luck to everyone and thanks for all of the hard work!
baobab68:
Davide has a point. Whether WMA is liked or not liked, cool or not cool, it is a stumbling block for a lot of people in converting to ROCKbox.
For some people the ability to go into Windows Media Player and just rip songs is important, without having to know about lameenc --preset insane etc etc
Imagine Apple's lack of dominance if you had to do anything like that in order to successfully use an iPod.
We might end up with a similar situation in the imaging world when Microsoft releases its Windows Media Photo format with Vista. A lot more compression than JPG, but once again not an open standard. I guess photographers with a clue won't use it either.
Please notice how this post is not a complaining one.
Oh and Davide, cool avatar. That scene scared the hell out of me when i was a kid.
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