From: Brent Harding <bharding_at_doorpi.net>
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 21:34:28 -0600

I wish there was an easy way to just download a codec and run it through
something that will put it in a form that I could put on my 120 as a codec.
I heard these sort of things are among the most difficult thing as one has
to know how wma works to write a codec to play it.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Chapman" <dave_at_dchapman.com>
To: "Rockbox" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 5:18 AM
Subject: Re: Iriver H320 wma files


> Scott (6400) wrote:
>> How come RockBox does not support wma format files?
>> My Iriver firmware does support it and I have 1000 wma songs on my
>> Iriver.
>
> Rockbox supports whatever formats people have spent their spare time
> implementing decoders for. No-one has volunteered to write a WMA
> decoder yet (but some preliminary work has been done), which is why
> Rockbox doesn't support WMA.
>
> I'm sure it will happen at some point in the future, but as no active
> developers appear to use WMA to encode their music (and no-one who uses
> WMA has become a developer), it probably won't be soon.
>
> Dave.
>
Received on 2006-12-04