Quoting abdomen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am a couple of months into SB2 ownership, and am an extremely happy > customer. However, I want to explain why I think Slim Devices might be > underestimating the value of supporting native WMA lossless.
I think you may be tending toward the assumption that 'not supported yet' relates to 'underestimating the value'. WMA is a proprietary format; one cannot just implement it without all legalities in place. With MP3, that licensing was part of the purchase of the mp3 decoding hardware (back when it was strictly a hardware codex for squeezebox/slimp3). FLAC is open source, so you can go ahead right away. Equally possible is that Slim Devices is, in fact, calling the MSFT offices daily trying to finalise the details. MSFT's particular stance on open source projects is fairly well reported. I'd suggest that it would be very difficult to speculate on the status. -kdf _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
