Forget the lack of support for it on the hardware. How about the lack of support in application software?

I really haven't seen any compelling reasons to get Hugo et al. to consider adding Vorbis to the empeg. If someone provided them with FREE source code for decoding, using only integer instructions, then I'm sure they might consider adding it. But for them to dedicate any development time to work on it would be foolish. There's little or no gain at this point.

Unless some catastrophic events happen, I don't see Vorbis touching the popularity of MP3 or WMA. It looks (so far) destined to be a very fringe encoder. If things change, maybe THEN will be a better time for these requests.

Anyway, better than asking the empeg team for Vorbis support, would be to request that anyone write a quality integer-based decoder that will work with the ARM.

Bruno