Thread: Petition to add FLAC support to PS3 Music Player - PlayStation®3 Media (Blu-Ray & HD) - Official PlayStation®...

but I don't have a partition for linux so I will have to reformat and that most probably means that I will lose all those protected gamesaves etc    

PatchedUp wrote: You can't really use the open-source argument, since the PS3 itself uses a lot of open source software in its backbone. A lot of Sony products do.   You only need to look as far as the credits to see z-lib (a compression library) is used (a lot). Sony openly backs linux as the other OS, again open source. Sony also use open source for their games, PSGL (variant of OPEN GL ES1.0/2.0) and COLLADA.   So the open source...

andyrome64 wrote: but I don't have a partition for linux so I will have to reformat and that most probably means that I will lose all those protected gamesaves etc   True, you probably would. But how many of your saves are protected? besides, protected saves doesn't stop someone starting the game from scratch you don't loose your trophies so, if it's trophies your worried about, don't be.  

Well, Polish users asked in petition for Polish language support in XMB and they going to get it...

You can't really use the open-source argument, since the PS3 itself uses a lot of open source software in its backbone. A lot of Sony products do.   You only need to look as far as the credits to see z-lib (a compression library) is used (a lot). Sony openly backs linux as the other OS, again open source. Sony also use open source for their games, PSGL (variant of OPEN GL ES1.0/2.0) and COLLADA.   So the open source agrument isn't...

Biker_J wrote: Big Companys don't trust open source, that's life. They prefer to have a company to fall back to :-( That's life! I guess IBM, Cisco, Novell and Microsoft do not count as a "Big Companys"?   You should really read the documents that come with their products and software. IBM has done loads of open source integration and Microsoft has used loads of Open Source BSD programs.   Also a lot of...

It won't happen, at least not for a long time.  

Biker_J wrote: I'll be happy to see flac support, as my whole music collection (Thousends of songs) are in flac on my computer, and it's incovieniant to convert them to mp3 for ps3. but petitions never work I converted all my CDs to FLAC on my PC, and use TVersity to stream them to the PS3 - it works a treat!!!  I highly recommend it.   However, I also would like native FLAC support on the PS3, so count me in. Message Edited by...

s_nort wrote: Well, Polish users asked in petition for Polish language support in XMB and they going to get it... That'd be different seeing as though a national language would be the primary form of communication and understanding for a majority of said nationality.   There was a thread on this before, and it was some time ago, last year IIRC. That was largely ignored or even acknowledged in any form by a community representative.  ...

It would be nice if the PS3 did support FLAC. But untill the PS3 can organise music properly I'm not that bothered what formats it can play.