flac dev - Sep 2004 - FLAC support in Phatbox car audio system

For the interested, the Phatbox (a car audio system) now has
firmware to support FLAC files.  I have a news bullet on the
FLAC site:

   http://flac.sourceforge.net/news.html#20020213

This is the first hardware support for FLAC (more is coming)
and I think the first support of any non-proprietary lossless
audio format for any hardware.  Kudos to Phatnoise for taking
the lead.

Josh


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"JC" == Josh Coalson <xflac@yahoo.com> writes:

JC> For the interested, the Phatbox (a car audio system) now has
JC> firmware to support FLAC files.  I have a news bullet on the FLAC
JC> site:

JC> http://flac.sourceforge.net/news.html#20020213

JC> This is the first hardware support for FLAC (more is coming)

Now you got my attention.  Anything remotely portable that
supports FLAC would be _very_ interesting.

Had I got the time, I would have looked into what could be
done with the 2.5" hard disk MP3-players available on the
market.

I heard about some firmware replacement project that could
be interesting, but at least one of the players apparently
does it's MP3-decompression with dedicated hardware.

JC> and I think the first support of any non-proprietary lossless
JC> audio format for any hardware.  Kudos to Phatnoise for taking
JC> the lead.

Agreed.

/Svante

JC> Josh
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* Matt Zimmerman (mdz@debian.org) wrote:
> Could it be the first support of any non-proprietary audio format (lossy or
> lossless)?  I am not aware of any hardware which supports an open lossy
> codec either, though I would love a portable Ogg Vorbis player.
Me too!  I've read that Vorbis is unlikely to have any hardware support
until there is an integer decoder, though (I guess embedded CPUs don't
usually have FPUs).

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On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 04:11:13PM -0800, Josh Coalson wrote:
> For the interested, the Phatbox (a car audio system) now has firmware to
> support FLAC files.  I have a news bullet on the FLAC site:
Great news!
> This is the first hardware support for FLAC (more is coming) and I think
> the first support of any non-proprietary lossless audio format for any
> hardware.  Kudos to Phatnoise for taking the lead.
Could it be the first support of any non-proprietary audio format (lossy or
lossless)?  I am not aware of any hardware which supports an open lossy
codec either, though I would love a portable Ogg Vorbis player.

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