What stands in the way of implementing FLAC support in BB OS?

[crackberry_jones]

I haven't done any coding since BASIC (in grade school) but I "need" to be able to play FLAC (free lossless audio codec) files on my 8900.

I'm not a "music pirate"; the recordings I want to play are ones that I personally created. My plan is to use my 8900 as a tool for hand-delivering audio to the musicians I've recorded (via mass-storage mode) and for playing said recordings back for them. MP3 and the "consumer" formats currently supported by 4.6.1.xxx are is completely unacceptable for this purpose. I can (and do) use WAV but prefer FLAC (for the same reason that the consumer prefers MP3 - smaller file sizes).

My operation is funded entirely out of my own pockets (which are not, by any stretch of the imagination, deep). Because many of the musicians I record are "more broke than I am", I do much of my work gratis. The majority of my distribution is non-commercial or donations-based. What I'm trying to say is that I really can't pay someone to help me with this.

But I'd like to see it happen - even if I have to learn how to do it for myself. I want a FLACberry(tm). How do I make that happen?

Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com

[ydaraishy]

not much, I don't think, but that doesn't mean it would be a lot of work. I was planning to try and attempt this so much. There's a Java FLAC library that would need beating into shape, and you could write an app that would play FLAC files, but there wouldn't be something that you could plug into the default media player.