DSi NO MPS3 playback WTF!!!

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jkimball said:

dark_gh0st_b0y said:
just use itunes to make the songs AAC

but still, there's no reason why not to support both

 

 You are right on one sense, there is no reason for NINTENDO not to support both.  If we (those of use with 100's of CD converted to MP3 fo rmany, many years)  'just convert' to AAC then...all of our MP3 players won't work.  This is monumentally stupid on Nintendo's part.  90% of the mp4 file are out there are from iTunes and they ONLY work with the iPod they were purchased with. 

Outside of DRM crippled itunes, no one uses MP4 for anything. That is whay every portable device, including EVERY ipod/itouch ad iPhone plays MP3 files! Sheesh!

Ninentdo has managed to create a 'music player' (using the term loosely here) that won't play any DRM AAC llike iPods, and also won't play and non-DRM encumbered MP3 files. 

 

Let's summarize:

 

Device	DRM AAC?	AAC	MP3
iPod, etc	Y	Y	Y
Creative Muvo	N	N	Y
Creative Zen	N	Y	Y
PSP	N	Y	Y
iDNS	N	Y	N
PS3	N	Y	Y
Everything Else	N	?	Y

 

I challenge anyone to find any other music player, that does NOT play MP3.  This is truly a first!

 

 

 

 

Monumentally stupid would be converting to mp4 without keeping the original mp3's, if you only use mp3 players on your pc.

 

Asking which media player doesn't play mp3's is stupid, since that is the old format that has been around for so long. That doesn't mean it's the standard any more.

 

Online music distribution is how MOST people are getting their music these days, and the format being used is AAC, by far and away. Anybody who tries to say that CD's are the main distribution of music hasn't looked at the numbers.