I envisioned this being implemented as a patch to Android at the OS level. It looks like Android has native decoders which the media player and Java APIs call. My understanding is that T-Mobile pushes out over the air updates of the operating system every so often. For example, there's a new version of the Android OS called Cupcake<http://source.android.com/roadmap/cupcake>in the works. Patching the OS would allow the default media player and third party media players to play FLAC files on updated versions of the OS. Conrad, you mentioned the OpenMax IL components. I've posted links in the bug report <%20http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1461> to existing places in the code base that we'd have to hook into. Perhaps you could peek at those links and point to a place in the code where there's an existing OpenMax component implementation to use as an example? I'm pretty strong with Java, but since it turns out this needs to be done natively, I'm not sure whether I would have the ability to patch Android myself. I at least wanted to find out if anyone else was working on it and help come up with a design documented on the bug report, so that when someone eventually does tackle it there will be a game plan in place. As a side note, if someone already involved in FLAC development were willing to work on the feature, I'm pretty optimistic I could connect you to somone on the Android side of things for design feedback, code reviews, etc.
-Ben
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