As part of an update available next month, the Wii Photo Channel will be replacing the MP3 file format with the ability to play higher-quality AAC files. Also compatible will be MP4 audio files in the m4a format, but MP3 is about to be kicked to the curb. So much for most of my music library.
Current Wii owners should be able to simply skip the update if they wish to keep their MP3s, but all consoles sold at retail next month and beyond will come with it already installed. Additionally, the new Photo Channel version 1.1 will allow you to shuffle songs for random playback and set any picture you like as the Photo Channel icon in the Wii menu, but what good is any of that when you just finished explaining to Grandma what an MP3 is? She's going to be so confused now.
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4:18 AM on 11.14.2007
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why couldnt they have just added aac instead of removing mp3 altogether? i have a feeling Nintendo are up to something
Fortunately, I never use the photo channel anyway.
This worries me and my excite truck.
They should be adding AAC playback to the already supported MP3 playback. Adding options not taking away.
Double Laym for removing the most widely used compressed audio format worldwide.
AAC isn't Apple's format, by the way. In fact, the group who cooked-up MP3 (Fraunhofer IIS) had a hand in its creation, and they officially declared it to be MP3's successor. Hating on AAC vs. MP3 is akin to hating on MPEG4 vs. MPEG1 (literally). I know that MP3 players are cheap and plentiful, and that's probably why it's still popular, but that doesn't mean it's a better format.
Oh yeah, and photo channel sucks. I'm surprised someone noticed the change. :p
There is room here for somebody to just make a flash mp3 player that sit on ur PC, streem to the wii.
While removing the feature sucks, considering that everything on the planet including your shoelaces can play MP3's is anyone going to really miss this.
That does suck, why take it out ?
Amen. I'm tired of people bagging on Apple every time AAC is mentioned. Just because Apple is one of the few who recognize AAC as superior to MP3 (and is, in fact, MP3's legitimate successor).
Apple ≠ AAC. But AAC > MP3.
That said, I can't fathom why Nintendo can't support both formats.
if this is just a change for change sake.... why? has to be a copyright issue. still, it's not like nintendo has a lack of cashflow to be able to support both formats.
OBVIOUS MAN.....FLLLLLLYYYYY!!!!!
To not do this and let your customers stew, in the wake of such an update is unforgiveable. Its not the point whether aac is better or not, its the fact we didn't get asked about it.
A lesson Nintendo can learn from MS, when updating software, please give a discription of what the update does to your Wii and the option to refuse parts, if not all of it.
Thanks a lot, jerks.