Re: [SurroundSound] MP3s - The Devil's Right Hand?

My feeling is if hardware manufacturers felt it would be profitable designing and building units to play flacs, they would. Think this….if the demand were great enough and someone were first to the plate, they'd kill with sales. Heck, they'd be the only game in town, until the other bean counters followed suit. Designers and forward-thinkers are usually over-ruled or out voted by bean counters and folks that think they know better than what consumers want. Profit (or the thought of profit) generally is the decisive factor in what makes it to market. My guess is that as long as mp3 is promoted and favored by the masses, why do anything differently to satisfy the fringe? Think bell-curve and where you fit. If you're too far from center, forget about it!! Culture takes a long time to change, perhaps someday. My guess is that once flac capable players becomes widespread, there'll be another format on the fringe that we'll all be clamoring for.

Johnny




On Dec 1, 2012, at 5:31 AM, flytomars wrote:

> Hi birgir, welcome!
> I also think flac is the best possible format (hey, it even supports suround!) Thats why I am puzzled as to why it is not widely supported in every mobile audio apparatus (be it in the car or on a portable player). Especially since its an open and free format. I guess it requires alot of computer power to extract (I tried playing flac on my smartphone, it was all jittery as if it did not have enough cpu for it)
> I hope with all the advancement in the smartphones area, other fields will be
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