Phil Leigh;636384 Wrote: > Jihad? - against a gaggle? well, you and another guy anyway :-) > > SBS would be a much better product IMO if it didn't have to keep on > supporting an almost infinite variety of file/streaming formats. Cue > sheets just aren't needed these days - likewise APE file (and OGG for > that matter). There's a whole host of functionality that could be > ripped out without troubling any more than 1% of the userbase.
OGG is also used for streaming and radio, you wont get away from that one, but in general there are to many music file formats and thats true outside of the squeezebox context too. This plethora of formats upps the dev cost all products. is not spotify using ogg ? in an ideal world it would be FLAC and OGG , mp3 is not a free format but it is everywhere hard to avoid in reality. why Apple and Microsoft just had to develop thier own formats ? Most likely vendor look in and licencing fees. Example it looks like it is free to use WMA on your pc or if you stream from your radio channel. But you are paying every time you buy hardware was it 400000$ + some $ per unit for WMA or WMAL ? so it goes on the price for your squeezebox. better ditch wma and wmal support before ogg imho -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88230 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
