I have opened a feature request (Bug 1061) as follows: "Native support of OGG VORBIS format in firmware. I've read that FLAC is now supported in Slimserver2. My friends and I have been waiting for native OGG VORBIS support. It is a drag to have to incur the overhead and increased bandwidth requirements to convert to WAV. The option to use LAME to convert to MP3 kind of defeats the purpose of having a OGG library in the first place. If we wanted MP3 we would have encoded in that format in the first place. What are the plans to support the OGG VORBIS format in firmware?"
I received a prompt response: "SB2 has the option of transcoding to FLAC rather than MP3. This gives you the bandwidth benefits of compression without the quality loss of MP3. It's not quite the same as Ogg Vorbis in firmware, but I'm hoping it's a reasonable stopgap measure." Does anyone have any additional information if this support is being seriously considered; and the timeframe that it may be implemented? I would think my friends and I aren't the only ones using this format, esp. with the advent of OGG support in various radio feeds, various portable devices, etc. Is this something that cannot be supported in SB2, and could only be made available in SB3, SB4 or SBx? _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
