Dan Williams escribió:
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 11:37 -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote:
Nicu Buculei wrote:
It would be interesting to gather some hard data about how many people rip to mp3, ogg, flac and wav, but I suspect we don't have a clean way to get this data.
Don't the various music players each have some kind of xml config file somewhere? Do these files have any information on what formats the players support? That could be a way to at least have an idea of how
Yes, 10-usb-music-players.fdi. And I'm pretty sure rhythmbox will already transcode to a format the player supports, but of course nautilus won't since it doesn't care what type the device is.
Dan
I've been watching this discussion over the last few days, and I can't help but think about one single issue: If Rythmbox rips to .ogg/.flac and then transcodes into the DAP's native format (.wma/.m4a/AAC/etc) to synchronize, doesn't that mean that at least the *encoders* to these other formats/containers must be installed on Fedora, and that would bring us to the first point of the argument of Fedora not being able (under US laws) to include these encoders in the first place? What does it matter if Rythmbox upstream is able to do this (regardless of the format you may keep your own library) if it *can't be implemented on Fedora* due to use of restricted encoders required. So, in a default installation, suppose Rythmbox is able to do this, but it requires the pertinent GStreamer plugins to be installed in the first place to be able to do the transcode. Or is Fedora enabling RPMFusion by default and installing these encoders in an "as needed" basis when a user first tries to sync his/her iPod/Nomad/iriver/Sony/etc DAP?