Navyblue
Headphoneus Supremus
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I see that WMA lossless is not a terribly popular lossless format here.
Obviously it's because it is proprietary. and iPods doesn't play them, but upside is almost (if not all) all other players plays them. Which make them the most compatible lossless format (in player models, and of course there are more iPods than anything else) other than .wav.
So far I resisted the temptation of being Bill's slave. I go for open format whenever I could, I even ran Linux for a while on PC, PDA and phone for a while. But my track record hasn't been promising. I have used Microsoft OS right from DOS ver 6.0, I have always wanted to get a Mac but I somehow didn't manage to do that, I think I resigned myself to using their OS for the rest of my life. Somewhere along the way I got a PocketPC when Palm was still the market leader, and am now using a Windows Mobile Smartphone. To top it off a Zune 120 is flying across the globe towards me right now. I guess my resistance had been futile.
Not that I could hear a difference between lossless and320kbps (at least the last time I tried). I figured the Zune would still hold a lot of songs even if I stuff it up with lossless files, I wonder if I should re rip my CDs. And my Sony would play them too. I don't see any down side in the foreseeable future, unless I get an iPod or a Mac, but that is not likely to happen anytime soon, even then I guess it is not that hard to turn them into FLAC or ALAC. The only downside is my wive uses an iPod and she has to do her own ripping (which she already did for CDs that I don't bother to rip) or conversion and she kept her own library.
Am I missing something here? Is there other reason for its unpopularity apart from those mentioned?
Obviously it's because it is proprietary. and iPods doesn't play them, but upside is almost (if not all) all other players plays them. Which make them the most compatible lossless format (in player models, and of course there are more iPods than anything else) other than .wav.
So far I resisted the temptation of being Bill's slave. I go for open format whenever I could, I even ran Linux for a while on PC, PDA and phone for a while. But my track record hasn't been promising. I have used Microsoft OS right from DOS ver 6.0, I have always wanted to get a Mac but I somehow didn't manage to do that, I think I resigned myself to using their OS for the rest of my life. Somewhere along the way I got a PocketPC when Palm was still the market leader, and am now using a Windows Mobile Smartphone. To top it off a Zune 120 is flying across the globe towards me right now. I guess my resistance had been futile.
Not that I could hear a difference between lossless and320kbps (at least the last time I tried). I figured the Zune would still hold a lot of songs even if I stuff it up with lossless files, I wonder if I should re rip my CDs. And my Sony would play them too. I don't see any down side in the foreseeable future, unless I get an iPod or a Mac, but that is not likely to happen anytime soon, even then I guess it is not that hard to turn them into FLAC or ALAC. The only downside is my wive uses an iPod and she has to do her own ripping (which she already did for CDs that I don't bother to rip) or conversion and she kept her own library.
Am I missing something here? Is there other reason for its unpopularity apart from those mentioned?