ogg and flac revisited
Good comments out of the gate! One poster reinforces the message that Ogg and FLAC are important; I couldn't agree more, but as I said we had to set priorities. We're one of the few devices out there that will offer good, solid iPod format compatibility, and that kept our plate pretty full.
Meanwhile, I'd suggest taking a look at some of my favorite tools for digital audio fans. The first is the most excellent tag editor, tag&rename by Softpointer. It's actually written by a developer near Kursk, Russia. It's a supremely powerful tag editing tool for nearly every format I can imagine, including ogg and FLAC, and even iTunes AAC tags, which Evgeny had to reverse engineer since Apple had to invent their own proprietary tagging scheme. If you're a power user, check it out.
My second suggestion is the amazing dbPoweramp. This tool transcodes pretty much any audio file into pretty much any other audio file. Not the perfect solution for getting into Zune, but a good partial one.
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Ok as I see it the upgradeable firmware option will allow for the usage of more codecs over time or is this a hardware limiting factor?
Right. Firmware updates can include additional codecs as needed.
Ogg and flac will tap a huge open source userbase IMO. I know many users (including myself) who may think about a iriver player with ogg support before thinking about the zune.
Oh, please. Anyone who cares about Ogg Vorbis vs. MP3 is already so deep into the thralls of open source madness that they'd never consider a device from "Micro$loth."
And I'll grant that FLAC has a point (as the lossless world lacks a codec with the broad interoperability of MP3, and neither WMA Lossless nor Apple Lossless are likely contenders for the role), but in a device that's so proprietary it won't even support the formats of other Microsoft divisions, well, probably not happening.
broken link - Tag&Rename goes to the dMC page. Tag&Rename is here: http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm.
broken link - Tag&Rename goes to the dMC page. Tag&Rename is here: http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm.
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