CZroe
6th April 2008, 22:55
Perhaps we should start a list of phones with DRM WMA support in response to the news yesterday...
So far, I know of:
The Samsung Sync, which takes a non-standard USB cable (kills the deal for me).
Pretty much every modern Windows Mobile "Smartphone."
Whatever phones support that Napster2Go tie-in that was announced a while back.
It's really like a phone with subscription music support, expandable memory (micro SDHC), and A2DP + AVRCP Bluetooth, but stupid things like proprietary USB cords on an MP3 player really tick me off and similarly turn me against certain phones. Using FairUse4WM to make any WMA-compliant phone work with it is not my idea of "convenience through convergence."
Granted, I'd gladly make exceptions. If the iPhone were updated for 3G and A2DP, I think I'd go through the FairUse4WM + Subscription thing if someone would hack the iPhone to play WMA. Perhaps, with a homebrew WMA player, we could "frameserve" the decrypted WMA files to the built-in music player that believes it is playing a lossless format? That would avoid re-encoding the files and allow you to sync them with the metadata along with your regular music collection.
So far, I know of:
The Samsung Sync, which takes a non-standard USB cable (kills the deal for me).
Pretty much every modern Windows Mobile "Smartphone."
Whatever phones support that Napster2Go tie-in that was announced a while back.
It's really like a phone with subscription music support, expandable memory (micro SDHC), and A2DP + AVRCP Bluetooth, but stupid things like proprietary USB cords on an MP3 player really tick me off and similarly turn me against certain phones. Using FairUse4WM to make any WMA-compliant phone work with it is not my idea of "convenience through convergence."
Granted, I'd gladly make exceptions. If the iPhone were updated for 3G and A2DP, I think I'd go through the FairUse4WM + Subscription thing if someone would hack the iPhone to play WMA. Perhaps, with a homebrew WMA player, we could "frameserve" the decrypted WMA files to the built-in music player that believes it is playing a lossless format? That would avoid re-encoding the files and allow you to sync them with the metadata along with your regular music collection.