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Apple's iPod Chip Supports WMA?

Posted by pudge on from the maybe-because-wma-and-its-drm-suck dept.

John writes "Chip manufacturer Portal Player in Santa Clara builds the embedded PP5002 chip in Apple's iPod (allowing the playing of AAC and MP3). It has emerged that the chip firmware, by default, allows the playing of WMA. However, for some reason this is locked by Apple."

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  1. Re:"For some reason" ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    $ _=q{$_=q{Q};s/Q/$_/;print};s/Q/$_/;print
    bash: s/Q//: No such file or directory
    bash: print}: command not found
    bash: s/Q/print}/: No such file or directory
    bash: print: command not found

  2. Re:Show me the money by Kethinov · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because it's a terrible file format compared to MP3, and MP3 is already the standard?

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