Re: Multimedia linux

Bjoern Schliessmann a écrit :
jacob navia wrote:


1) can read WMA music files.


I'm not absolutely sure, but because it's MS I think you need
Windows libraries for this.


Maybe, but I was two weeks ago at the supermarket
and most of the new CD readers would read this format.

AKAI, Thomson, most CD readers listed WMA as
an accepted format.

They have surely no windows in a HIFI chains...


This is a popular losless format, supported by many CD readers and
hardware.


WMA is no lossless format, it's a suite of multimedia codecs. WMA 9
also contains a lossless codec (beneath others), but mostly,
especially for music, the lossy variants are used normally.


Well, Windows Media Player has a "lossless" setting that should
be compressed but without any information loss.


(I'd go for OGG instead ;) )


Yes, but the prospect of re-recording my 100GB music collection
is not very interesting.


Thanks for your reply

jacob

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