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. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
