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HP Working With Apple To Add WMA Support To iPod
iPod Afficianado writes to a short piece at Connected Home magazine in which Paul Thurrott "is quoted as saying that HP's blockbuster deal with Apple will have one
exciting side effect. The company will be working with Apple to add support for
Microsoft's superior Windows Media Audio (WMA) format to the iPod by mid-year."
Superior??? WHAT??? WMA??? Oh god! Leave it to Paul.
Did he really have to call Windows Media "superior"?
Yikes! Prepare for flamage!
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Superior? That's a new one.
"...superior Windows Media Audio (WMA) format" ? Superior to *what*, did you say? .wav?
I'm a dreamer, the world is my playpen. But hey, I'm a serious person, I can't dream all the time.
Microsoft's superior Windows Media Audio
If WMA is superior, I'll shove a shoe up Bill Gate's ass. Similar to how WMA is shoved down the throats of the consumer.
Microsoft's superior Windows Media Audio
Will it also run on Microsoft's superior operating system so it can benefit from superior crashes and viruses?
Opus: the Swiss army knife of audio codec
I'm not sure, but it looks like the article says WMA is superior.
Correct me if I misread it, though. Nobody in the comments seems to have anything to say on it.
- foad
I, for one, welcome our newly superior WMA overlords.
...Sony also announced today that it's newest CD player will support the superior 8-track and Vinyl formats. In addition, plans are underway to scrap the existing DVD line of products for the ultra-lo definition VHS format.
who, as near as I can tell, is some sort of sentient appendage growing on Bill Gates' ass. He has a whole site devoted to his particular brand of hyperactive boosterism.
You're 5... 4... 3... 2... Late...
FP was ages ago.
I heard of this new audio codec called Ogg Vorbis. Is there any more information about it? I'm suprised no one has mentioned it in this thread yet.
I thought laying flamebait in the article summaries died with the end of the "but they ruin it all by having a one button mouse" type posts. Anyway, I'm too tired to make a logical argument against it (and many others have done already) so I'll just fall back on an oldie but a goodie from Usenet. Come along kids... it'll be a trip down memory lane.
Drum roll, please...
The company will be working with Apple to add support for Microsoft's superior Windows Media Audio
You misspelled "crappy."
Ba-dum bum!
(Raucous laughter)
Thank you. Thank you. Thanks so much. I'm here 'til Thursday.
--Rick "If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why."
Somehow, I don't think Apple will miss the money.
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first of all - superior to what?
1. A kick in the head.
2. Finding your girlfriend in bed with those twins that ride tiny motorcycles and hold the guiness record for the world's fattest men.
3. Poop.
4. Cleaning all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station, but only if all you had was a toothbrush.
5. Contracting one of those tiny fish parasites that swims up your stream of urine if you're peeing into the Amazon and lays eggs in your joystick.
6. Working in sales.
the list goes on...
As for your other part, AAC isn't strictly DRM. It's mp4, with the ability to slap DRM on it when it's made. A normal AAC extension is ".m4a," and a DRM one is ".m4p." I'm guessing they stand for "Mp4 Aac" and "Mp4 Protected."
I just ripped nearly all my CD's to 192 AAC. The general consensus seems to be that the sound quality is indistinguishable from the CD, and damned if I can tell a difference.
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And I thought goatse was disgusting...
No no no, you guys are taking the word "Superior" out of context. This is understandable, since he has a few typos. He didn't mean "Superior Quality". Far from it.
He clearly meant "Superior" as in:
"Superior Officer", you know... the guy at boot camp who tells you to clean his boots with your tounge or he'll kick your ass.
"Mother Superior", the lady who wacks your knuckles with her yardstick and put's soap in your mouth for speaking out of turn.
"Superior", as in "above being affected or influenced; indifferent or immune" BY THE LAW.
They just think they're SOOOOOO superior...
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
It's technically a bit offtopic, but apparently MS was taken by surprise by the HP/Apple announcement, and wasn't able to put together a good spin quickly enough. The snip below is from a NY Times article:
Thursday the company appeared unprepared for the Apple-Hewlett agreement, which clearly stung Microsoft executives. They said the agreement would limit choice and harm consumers.
"Windows is about choice, you can mix and match all of this stuff," said David Fester, general manager of Microsoft's Windows digital media division. "We believe you should have the same choice when it comes to music services."
Priceless... :)
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It is a dada story -- it has no moral.
Superior number of artifacts even at the highest "quality" setting, superior amount of information lost, superior amount of annoyance to a listener with any amount of hearing, superior at convincing people to stick with CDs, etc. etc. etc.
"hyperactive boosterism"...yea, i hate those kinds of websites...
I use uncompressed WAV, you insensitive clod!
He has a whole site
And I thought goatse was disgusting...
Yeah, but wouldn't Goatse be a "hole" site?
what abotu the free software song?
First, download the Samba 2.2.7 archive from one of the many mirror sites and extract it as you normally would. Configure, build and install Samba per their instructions (hint: cd source; ./configure; make install). Next, download my module from here, then modify the Makefile to point the SAMBAHOME to the samba-2.2.7 directory and, if desired, modify the INSTALLDIR location where the module will be installed. Finally, run "make" to build the module, then "make install" (as root) to install the module.
Yeah that sounds a hell of a lot quicker than clicking the little triangle button in iTunes.
Before more of you go off on a flamewar against poor old Paul - who is a paragon of virtue, by the way - I have taken the time to paste the definition of 'superior' here, and I have highlighted in italics the particular usage that I believe was intended, for the WMP format.
Once you all read this I'm sure it will all make sense.
superior
\Su*pe"ri*or\, a. [L., compar. of superus being above, fr. super above, over: cf. F. sup['e]rieur. See Super-, and cf. Supreme.] 1. More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.
2. Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as, a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility.
3. Higher or greater in excellence; surpassing others in the greatness, or value of any quality; greater in quality or degree; as, a man of superior merit; or of superior bravery.
4. Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; -- with to.
5. More comprehensive; as a term in classification; as, a genus is superior to a species.
6. (Bot.) (a) Above the ovary; -- said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it. (b) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior. (c) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; -- said of the radicle.
See? Very clear - the WMP format is an ovary attached to the AAC format, or something, and is just kind of generally flower-like.
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
Most excellent!!!
and when will the superior new WMA version come out on Windows?
2.) The WMAs are smaller in file size (even at the same bit encoding).
Yeah, and a Porche will get you to your destination faster, even if you drive at the same speed.