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Hi-MD, ogg and flac

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danielbb90

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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.

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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? :/

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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

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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 :)

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