On Thursday 10 April 2008, Mateusz A. Mierzwiński wrote:
Hi,
I just wan't to know, why software such as amarok don't go way, like
winamp - more formats available for playing because of plugins?
Dunno. You should ask the amarok developers why they chose the
architecture they did. Or you could try gstreamer?
SO
libraries are also dynamic linked, so why I don't have any player for
VQF format?
Maybe no-one has written one. It won't be written until someone care
enough to write it.
I must emulate Winamp with wine to play VQF of course
with better sound quality with DSP plugins like 3D Spatial Sound. My
god! This is Linux - best operating system on the world, why software
producers are so closed to world? Wining with Windows is endless
future. XMMS was playing VQF but XMMS was removed from portage
because some bugs (what software don't have one).
XMMS was removed from portage because it was a huge monolithic piece of
crap. Upstream ABANDONED the project years before, no-one had touched
the ebuild for ages and no-one was prepared to maintain it. And, just
to top everything off, it wouldn't build.
I know that OGG is
better, or even MP3 (MPEG-1 Layer 3) but VQF in 80kbps is still
lossless compresion - MP3 and OGG not, and I like to listen good
quality music with all tones, even not heared. PS: human ear
toleration is little part different for different people - MP3 and
OGG is not good compression for audiophiles.
Mateusz, this is the wrong place to vent your frustrations and have a
rant. The people here will help you take something that exists and get
it running. They are not the devs, and no-one here has influence with
the devs.
I suggest you code the necessary plugins yourself. That's how this best
operating system in the world got to be the best - someone like you
needed it to do something and wrote the code to do it.
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Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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