Why the low popularity/usage of WMA Lossless? (according to the poll), Split from: 2012 ripping/encoding poll |
Why the low popularity/usage of WMA Lossless? (according to the poll), Split from: 2012 ripping/encoding poll |
 Jan 10 2012, 06:21
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What's so bad about WMAL?
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Jan 10 2012, 16:53
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QUOTE (HTS @ Jan 10 2012, 06:21)  What's so bad about WMAL? Except that hardly anybody uses it, and it is not very well supported? Even ffmpeg, which supports a codec list long as this, fails to decode it. And it lacks features like ReplayGain support. To counter it: Why choose WMA (lossy or lossless), except if you want to stick to Windows Media Player or really need something which Windows Explorer identifies as 'audio'? ( ... the obvious answer was «DRM» ... ) -------------------- geocities.com/hydrogenaudio: http://goo.gl/tqYZj
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Jan 12 2012, 03:55
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QUOTE (Porcus @ Jan 10 2012, 10:53) QUOTE (HTS @ Jan 10 2012, 06:21) What's so bad about WMAL? Except that hardly anybody uses it, and it is not very well supported? Even ffmpeg, which supports a codec list long as this, fails to decode it. FWIW, theres a mostly working WMAL decoder in ffmpeg as of a couple days ago. The code is still in bad shape though, so I wouldn't depend on it just yet. But maybe someday  |
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HTS Why the low popularity/usage of WMA Lossless? (according to the poll) Jan 10 2012, 06:21
HTS What about reliability? Microsoft is a huge compan... Jan 10 2012, 20:55 kornchild2002 QUOTE (HTS @ Jan 10 2012, 12:55) What abo... Jan 11 2012, 00:09
db1989 QUOTE (kornchild2002 @ Jan 10 2012, 23:09... Jan 11 2012, 00:16 Porcus QUOTE (HTS @ Jan 10 2012, 20:55) What abo... Jan 11 2012, 01:43 Porcus QUOTE (saratoga @ Jan 12 2012, 03:55) QUO... Jan 12 2012, 19:34 greynol That's kind of funny since for years WMP didn... Jan 10 2012, 21:52 HTS QUOTE (greynol @ Jan 10 2012, 15:52) That... Jan 11 2012, 01:32 spoon We have reported bugs to Microsoft (to the project... Jan 10 2012, 22:23 Squeller QUOTE (spoon @ Jan 10 2012, 22:23) We hav... Jan 14 2012, 15:27 greynol Of the devices that support WMA, such as car stere... Jan 11 2012, 00:16 kornchild2002 QUOTE (greynol @ Jan 10 2012, 16:16) Of t... Jan 11 2012, 02:05 Ron Jones QUOTE (greynol @ Jan 10 2012, 16:16) Of t... Jan 12 2012, 03:51 HTS What's the easiest way to convert about 300gb ... Jan 12 2012, 03:47 Roseval QUOTE (HTS @ Jan 12 2012, 03:47) What... Jan 12 2012, 08:04 HTS Foobar in its latest version can decompress WMAL f... Jan 13 2012, 06:17 probedb QUOTE (HTS @ Jan 13 2012, 05:17) Foobar i... Jan 13 2012, 12:15 HTS QUOTE (probedb @ Jan 13 2012, 06:15) QUOT... Jan 14 2012, 00:35 saratoga QUOTE (HTS @ Jan 13 2012, 18:35) The ques... Jan 14 2012, 00:47 HTS QUOTE (saratoga @ Jan 13 2012, 18:47) QUO... Jan 14 2012, 00:51 saratoga QUOTE (HTS @ Jan 13 2012, 18:51) QUOTE (s... Jan 14 2012, 00:59 slks The reason nobody uses WMA Lossless is that there... Jan 13 2012, 06:43 hellokeith QUOTE (HTS @ Jan 9 2012, 23:21) What... Jan 14 2012, 10:00 lvqcl I don't know what means "without any help... Jan 14 2012, 11:10 spoon Back in the day when MS first released WMA dBpower... Jan 14 2012, 17:08 hellokeith QUOTE (spoon @ Jan 14 2012, 10:08) now it... Jan 15 2012, 00:09 kornchild2002 I imagine MS has its hands in several patents for ... Jan 15 2012, 02:10 cowls192 QUOTE (HTS @ Jan 10 2012, 01:21) What... Aug 10 2012, 04:07 Mach-X There's nothing wrong with wmal, or wma in gen... Dec 23 2012, 07:22 probedb QUOTE (Mach-X @ Dec 23 2012, 06:22) ... Dec 23 2012, 10:47 DonP QUOTE (Mach-X @ Dec 23 2012, 01:22) ... Dec 23 2012, 15:00 nu774 Maybe because of this? http://www.hydrogenaudio.or... Dec 23 2012, 09:28 saratoga QUOTE (nu774 @ Dec 23 2012, 04:28) Maybe ... Dec 23 2012, 20:21 pdq WMA (and I don't mean WMA Pro) scored consiste... Dec 23 2012, 16:07 frozenspeed QUOTE (HTS @ Jan 9 2012, 22:21) What... Dec 23 2012, 18:59 |
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