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Infinity on 05 April 2009

The DSi is already $40 more expensive than a new DS Lite. Adding to it the cost of spending the time and effort to degrade your music library to be compatible with it makes the DSi a terrible value. Besides, the DSi has 1/3 less battery life than the DS Lite. I see plenty of negatives in the DSi and nothing redeeming.



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Staude on 05 April 2009
tuoyo said:
Shanobi said:
Good God people, MP3's are 1998. This is 2009.

The major online distributor of music distributes in...wait for it:

MP4! That's right, AAC.

What is the issue with converting your old MP3's to MP4's in i-tunes or another program? Is it so hard to highlight them, and press a button that says "convert"?

My complaint is that I can't seem to find where to put the vinyl records into the DSi. It says it plays music, but there is nothing in the instructions about lp's. :(

Okay I understand Nintendo's decision if it doesn't want to pay for royalties but what I don't understand is why so many people seem to think everyone should just be happy converting all their music when they are already in the format which is standard.  You say this is not 1998.  Well I started ripping all my cds to WMA format back in 1998 so I could listen on an mp3 player.  I love Windows Media and its ripping tools.  I also downloaded a bit from Napster back then so picked up a few MP3s.  Since 1998 any new CD I bought I would rip with Windows Media.  So I have 10 years worth of ripped WMA.  For others it would be 10 years worth of MP3s. 

I'm not interested in playing music on DSi but if I did I wouldn't want to convert 10 years worth of music because it is now 2009 and a new format has surfaced.

 

in 1998...

 

 

in 1998 people, the latest OS from microsoft was windows 98 and i don't mean second edition. Maybe you guys would like to think it's that far back, but it's more like around 2000.

 

On another note, mp3 is the standard format and i don't get people who claim otherwise... because they are horribly wrong.

 

 



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bdbdbd on 05 April 2009

@Jo21: You don't now understand something:
As MP3 is de facto standard in music compression, AAC is standard de jure in mobile devices, because the manufacturers have decided so. AAC music players do support MP3 just as well, but that's largely due its widespread popularity.



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Jo21 on 05 April 2009
bdbdbd said:
@Jo21: You don't now understand something:
As MP3 is de facto standard in music compression, AAC is standard de jure in mobile devices, because the manufacturers have decided so. AAC music players do support MP3 just as well, but that's largely due its widespread popularity.

exactly. yet the DSi doesn't.



darklich13 on 05 April 2009

That is too bad cause my DS plays mp3's just fine.



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thetonestarr on 05 April 2009
jake_the_fake1 said:
11ht11 said:
jake_the_fake1 said:

Take a look at the PSP, you put music into the music folder, and it works....this is how simple it should be to put music on the DSi....Nintendo is suppose to be about simplicity and how anyone can do it....and here they are going backwards and not caring.

 

not WMA

 

I was refereding to MP3 format, it's the standard for the mass market, and it's a standard format among all cosumer devices, excluding a small few which include the DSi.

VHS was the standard until DVD came around. You didn't argue about people supporting the superior format only back then; why argue now?

 

AAC is incredibly superior to MP3. Somebody's gotta do something to bring about the change that'll move support over. Yes, MP3 is standard, but does that mean it should be?

 



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Cheebee on 05 April 2009

Well, AAC = smaller files + better quality, so... besides, most people use iPods and those use AAC as well, so, meh.



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Jo21 on 05 April 2009
Cheebee said:
Well, AAC = smaller files + better quality, so... besides, most people use iPods and those use AAC as wel, so, meh.

 

they support mp3 also.



Shanobi on 05 April 2009

One other thing, for the people who say there is nothing in the instructions about format. I just opened my DSi, and the first thing I see in the manual for the music is this:

"Nintendo DSi sound can play audio in the following format:
AAC(.m4a, .mp4, .3gp)"




 

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Jo21 on 05 April 2009
Shanobi said:
One other thing, for the people who say there is nothing in the instructions about format. I just opened my DSi, and the first thing I see in the manual for the music is this:

"Nintendo DSi sound can play audio in the following format:
AAC(.m4a, .mp4, .3gp)"

 

AAC is the codec.

(.m4a, .mp4, .3gp) = containers.

.mp4 and 3gp can use video in the same container.

actually 3gp its used even in cellphones, for video recording.

new ones have h264 VGA  (640x480p) 30fps