Josh Coalson;143003 Wrote: > > you know, once you went with WMAL you pretty much tethered yourself > to microsoft. all microsoft has to say is 'no' to slimdevices or > price the license too high, or ... and that's it. >
For very light values of "tether", considering that it's a lossless format and there are freely downloadable SDKs and API documentation. WMA Lossless definitely isn't as open as FLAC, but it's no Apple Lossless, either. Anyway, open source arguments notwithstanding, the current situation kinda sucks for lossless people. There's no lossless format that will natively work on the best software (Windows Media Player 11, which only supports WMA Lossless), the best portable device (the iPod, which only supports Apple Lossless), and the best networked device (the Squeezebox, which only supports FLAC). Which is why I'm converting my WMA Lossless library into a FLAC library (for use with the Squeezebox) plus an MP3 "cache" (for use with everything else). I figure that portable devices and PCs are compromised enough that MP3 should be good enough -- and if I really care about sound quality over usability on the PC at some point, I can just use Foobar to directly play the FLAC library. -- mkozlows ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mkozlows's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28267 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
