danielbb90 Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 (edited) Hi,I was just wondering if Hi-MD would ever move to supporting flac and ogg vorbis on the device?Just want you'r view on this!I don't think really Hi-MD will ever survive long enougth for sony to add these...~ Danny Edited March 11, 2006 by danielbb90 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roamer Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 If RH1 is the last unit, this will surely not happen. And I was more expecting support for Atrac Lossless (even if i would prefer FLAC). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielbb90 Posted March 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Yeh! But I wonder If sony added flac or ogg if they would make the sound quality sound worse? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graphis_8 Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Yeh! But I wonder If sony added flac or ogg if they would make the sound quality sound worse?what is the point of ogg or flac if there is pcm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielbb90 Posted March 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 what is the point of ogg or flac if there is pcm?Playing life span?If there was a lossless compression the power life would be increased rather than larger files!If I ever got a Hi-MD player that uses AAs and LOADS of Hi-MD discs I would use PCM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 I wouldn't use any lossless compression method for listening in a portable device anyway since you can have virtually transparant files at approx. 1/5 - 1/4 the size (160-200 vs. 600-900kbps). It would just take too much space and eat batteries without offering a significant gain in quality. Ogg support would be nice, but not really necessary (for me). Maybe they should fix the crippled mp3 playback first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin42 Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Being as they have ATRAC Lossless I'd say there is about a 0.0001% chance of ever seeing any non-ATRAC/MP3 codec support in HiMD. MP3 was a *glaring* omission due to the fact everyone used it. But the percentage of people who use FLAC/OGG is so tiny anyway, I can't see Sony putting forth the effort.I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it... how many other big-name portable music players support OGG or FLAC? :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Low Volta Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 the important thing would be getting SS to work with all directshow codecs (including flac and ogg)... I really don't mind atrac(3/+) on the machine, but I would love to simply import my music library in flac->SS without having to convert to wav manually first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauljones52 Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Might be nice, but I would prefer they spent their time improving the existing Atrac codecs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielbb90 Posted March 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Might be nice, but I would prefer they spent their time improving the existing Atrac codecsYeh, I would say thats more to the point! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Cat Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 Yeh! But I wonder If sony added flac or ogg if they would make the sound quality sound worse?Oh, that is the question... LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielbb90 Posted March 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 (edited) Oh, that is the question... LOLAtleast someone agrees with me! lol I just want sony to add ogg, flac to convert from in sonicstage Edited March 14, 2006 by danielbb90 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekdroid Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 Hi,I was just wondering if Hi-MD would ever move to supporting flac and ogg vorbis on the device?Just want you'r view on this!Chance of that happening: almost nil, because they are not Sony formats, basically. Even though these formats are technically great and there are no prohibitive royalties associated with them, as there are with mp3:http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/Leave it to the Cowon, LG and Samsungs of the world to add support for these formats. The companies who are hungrier to go 'one-better' than the dinosaurs too interested in pushing their own dying formats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky191 Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 Fixing ATRAC Lossless and providing seamless encoding from other lossless formats to ATRAC would be a big improvement. Then it wouldn't matter what HiMD supported. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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