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marcmen

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why does media center support flac as a native file format in media center 11
« on: August 05, 2004, 01:12:25 am »
it would be usefull for converting to wav
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Re:why does media center support flac as a native file format in media center 11
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2004, 02:39:39 am »
Well, author of the lossless APE codec is a proud developer for Media Center, so between APE and WMA9 Lossless, FLAC is not high on the priority list.  (In fact, I would venture to guess it's not on the list at all! ;))

Requests have gone out (from the community [and also with Matt's urging]) for someone to write a third-party plugin, but no one has really seen the need I guess.  (One guy, I think, started working on one, but he has long since disappeared.... er... I think.)
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Re:why does media center support flac as a native file format in media center 11
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2004, 03:01:01 am »
Why would you use FLAC when you have APE?  Serious question - as a heavy APE user, I'm interested.
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Re:why does media center support flac as a native file format in media center 11
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2004, 03:12:23 am »
Quote from: Zoner on August 05, 2004, 03:01:01 am
Why would you use FLAC when you have APE?  Serious question - as a heavy APE user, I'm interested.
Better cross platform support.

However APE has that nice APL functionality though.

Now if Media Center was extended to handle cue files...... :)
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Re:why does media center support flac as a native file format in media center 11
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2004, 11:52:53 am »
Oblong wrote in_flac.dll (for playback, tag reading & writing, etc). He has the necessary expertise to write enc_flac.dll (as name implies, handles encodes/decodes). Hopefully he can get around to it soon. I use both flac & ape...mostly flac because OggDropXPd handles it so well.

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Re:why does media center support flac as a native file format in media center 11
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2004, 01:01:14 pm »
the reason i want flac over ape is that flac is support by hardware players such as rio and phat noise systems for cars and ape is not supported by any hardware devices
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Re:why does media center support flac as a native file format in media center 11
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2004, 11:01:40 pm »
Quote from: marcmen on August 05, 2004, 01:01:14 pm
the reason i want flac over ape is that flac is support by hardware players such as rio and phat noise systems for cars and ape is not supported by any hardware devices
I want flac for the same reason. However, rio karma suport has never been a priority for MC, so I wouldn't expect flac to be considered high-priority just because rio likes it :(
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