FLAC Audio codec for storm?

[bzickuhr]

500GB of flacs here. It's annoying to have to schlep an iRiver lplayer that has the same capacity as my BB just because I want to store my music in flac format...and there are a lot of "mp3" players that support open source formats now. The goal is to let the user decide, not limit them. 'cmon RIM, get with the program!

[GrueBlock]

Originally Posted by bzickuhr

The goal is to let the user decide, not limit them. 'cmon RIM, get with the program!

Amen! Coming from a device that prides itself on all of what it can do, why give up on something so seemingly simple? Who cares about battery life? That's up to whoever decides to use it.

The logic here is faulty.. Since you can't hear the difference, who cares, right? Well, since I don't use the calendar or docs2go, why even have them to begin with?

Create windows/doors for users to use freely, don't limit them because "it's easy to do it this way..."

I'd think that any product with as much competition as there is in this market would enable it's users to do anything they want. It's pretty simple and well worth the time/money invested.


Now I'm just blabbering...

[The G.O.A.T.]

why can't someone develop software for it??????

[Alexh380]

Originally Posted by cgull

Anyone know if RIM plans to add flac support? Would be nice as my music library is 100% flac.

Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com

Yes my blackberry 8900 plays FLAC very well and smoothly. It did not play FLAC when I received it in OS 4.6, but I did upgrade on OS 5.0.0.1004 and now FLAC are recognized exactly like other format. That's great. No need to convert music again.

[dogdreamshhi]

I don't mind converting to mp3 at 320kbps for what I want on my phone. I would love to see someone develop an app to stream archive.org though

[CrackAlexS]

Interesting thread:

>we will never see flac support on this device..

Bold 9700 supports it now on OS6 although it appears undocumented! I just tried it and it works!

> There's almost no point to have lossless support on a mobile.
> No mobiles can actually reproduce the original sound.

Second point is correct. Nothing can reproduce the original sound, only your ears can. So best thing is to fly out to the recording studio.

First point is totally incorrect, people have libraries of 1000's of songs that can play on many devices (not just mobiles). The user does not support the mobile phone, it's the mobile phone that should support the user (who would rather not spend all day converting files).

Still these points were made a long time ago - Blackberry supports FLAC! - yey!

[CrackAlexS]

Backpeddle! - Flac plays back great if you manually copy over the file to your card. Blackberry Desktop sync shows the flac files BUT WILL NOT DOWNLOAD via BB stating "unsupported format" - this is most strange..!!!

[the_sleuth]

Originally Posted by CrackAlexS

Backpeddle! - Flac plays back great if you manually copy over the file to your card. Blackberry Desktop sync shows the flac files BUT WILL NOT DOWNLOAD via BB stating "unsupported format" - this is most strange..!!!

Sure sign of poor software design.

I wonder if it will play ALAC from my iTunes catalogue? I am using 5.0.0.1041, I have to investigate.

[the_sleuth]

5xxx.1041 will not play FLAC nor ALAC on my native music app.

[iieeann]

9900 (OS7) supports FLAC natively. APE is not supported yet, still need to convert to flac zzz...