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i was just wondering if anyone had considered supporting the .shn format. i do realize that you currently support .flac, but for most collectors since etree.org has endorsed .shn this is the codec of choice. it would be a real shame if all us live music junkies had to re-encode hundreds of gigs to a different format to play on the mediacenter. i have the directshow shn plugin that enables playback in windows media player, powerpoint, etc if this is of any helps to the devs drop me a line and i'll get you a copy. other than that i absolutely love xbmc keep up the terrific work fellas
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please vote if you use this audio codec!
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my option isn't in the poll.
no, if i want to use a lossless codec i use monkey's audio as it offers the best compression.
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flac is the best choice right now. ape isn't supported with xbmc, and it could take a while before it is.
i have never heard about shn. is it good? should/could xbmc support it anytime soon?
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shn, as reflected in the poll is the format of choice for etree. its a lossless compression with about 2:1. its more open than ape(thus its wider use and easier to obtain algorithm.
last i checked theres an xmms plugin that works great with mplayer in linux, so it should be relatively trivial to get it running in xbmc.
i for one would love shn support, since i do have a lot of live shows i store in shn.
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i understood that, previous to your comment, but it is good that you comment anyway.
when i mean opening a feature request it is only, if mplayer supports it, then. and that's that.
p.s. i didn't consider this thread to be a feature request, i must admit, it was in offtopic, and only about shn in generall, and about shn software in general - somehow it turned into a feature request, but that's that.
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i use shn strictly for trading audio shows. i then burn my own audio cds from the shn files. shn support in xbmc is not that important to me.
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mplayer has the ability to use xmms plugins, and that is how it can play .shn's (on linux at least). that also leads me to believe that the mplayer team is not going to waste time to develop a native demuxer. is there any chance that xbmc could use a xmms plugin?
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