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On Thursday 10 April 2008, Mateusz A. Mierzwiñski wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I just wan't to know, why software such as amarok don't go way, like |
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> winamp - more formats available for playing because of plugins? |
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Dunno. You should ask the amarok developers why they chose the |
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architecture they did. Or you could try gstreamer? |
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> SO |
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> libraries are also dynamic linked, so why I don't have any player for |
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> VQF format? |
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Maybe no-one has written one. It won't be written until someone care |
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enough to write it. |
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> I must emulate Winamp with wine to play VQF of course |
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> with better sound quality with DSP plugins like 3D Spatial Sound. My |
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> god! This is Linux - best operating system on the world, why software |
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> producers are so closed to world? Wining with Windows is endless |
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> future. XMMS was playing VQF but XMMS was removed from portage |
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> because some bugs (what software don't have one). |
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XMMS was removed from portage because it was a huge monolithic piece of |
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crap. Upstream ABANDONED the project years before, no-one had touched |
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the ebuild for ages and no-one was prepared to maintain it. And, just |
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to top everything off, it wouldn't build. |
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> I know that OGG is |
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> better, or even MP3 (MPEG-1 Layer 3) but VQF in 80kbps is still |
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> lossless compresion - MP3 and OGG not, and I like to listen good |
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> quality music with all tones, even not heared. PS: human ear |
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> toleration is little part different for different people - MP3 and |
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> OGG is not good compression for audiophiles. |
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Mateusz, this is the wrong place to vent your frustrations and have a |
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rant. The people here will help you take something that exists and get |
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it running. They are not the devs, and no-one here has influence with |
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the devs. |
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I suggest you code the necessary plugins yourself. That's how this best |
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operating system in the world got to be the best - someone like you |
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needed it to do something and wrote the code to do it. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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