WMA Encoding

Posted by: kojak71

WMA Encoding - 27/12/2001 16:37

Just experimenting with my recently purchased Rio car and already running out of room on the player. So in the meantime whilst I contemplate getting another hard drive for the rio, I wanted to encode some albums (that I seldom listen to) into the WMA format using Audiograbber (I've tried it on 160kb/s version 2 and 8). However trying to drag the resultant .wma file onto emplode, it reports that it's not a valid media file.
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: WMA Encoding - 27/12/2001 16:49

I doesn't support WMA yet. It almost certainly will by the final realease of 2.0. There's apparently some licensing issues they're working out.
Posted by: kojak71

Re: WMA Encoding - 27/12/2001 17:07

Thanks, that would explain it. Strange that both the release notes and the front screen of emplode say otherwise. Oh well.
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: WMA Encoding - 27/12/2001 17:17

Hmmm. The only mention of WMA I see in the release notes is in beta3 and says ``WMA support is not included due to licensing issues. This functionality will be added when the problem is resolved.'' I'm sure that it's included in emplode because it was easier to just go ahead and desgin the screen properly to begin with rather than redesign it later.

Besides, ``BY DEFINITION, BETA SOFTWARE MAY NOT PERFORM AS ADVERTISED.''
Posted by: kojak71

Re: WMA Encoding - 27/12/2001 17:35

Fair enough
Posted by: Squid2k1

Re: WMA Encoding - 28/12/2001 06:58

In reply to:

The only mention of WMA I see in the release notes is in beta3 and says


I do not remember b3 but in b7, Emplode does have the WMA logo on it....which leads me to believe it should support WMA now...I know it is beta but usually the logos are not put in till it actually does it....
Posted by: kojak71

Re: WMA Encoding - 28/12/2001 09:09

``BY DEFINITION, BETA SOFTWARE MAY NOT PERFORM AS ADVERTISED.''

Does that mean that 1.03 does support WMA?
Posted by: robricc

Re: WMA Encoding - 28/12/2001 09:15

No, 1.03 and lower only support MP3. WMA support is supposed to be in version 2.00. I would expect it to be in 2.00 Final or a future beta of 2.00.
Posted by: rob

Re: WMA Encoding - 28/12/2001 12:54

WMA was never in 1.0 - it wasn't supported by the architecture.

We have had the code in 2.0 for many months, and are only holding back shipping due to a contractual issue with the vendor (you all know who that is). It should all be sorted out before the end of January, probably sooner.

Rob
Posted by: kojak71

Re: WMA Encoding - 28/12/2001 13:16

Thanks Rob for the clarification. Which version of WMA will be supported?
Posted by: rob

Re: WMA Encoding - 28/12/2001 13:28

I think it's 7 and 8. We don't support DRM encoded files.

Rob