Let me tell you about my problems with Overdrive this time.
I have three digital devices that could, in theory play the audiobook: 1. My mac laptop 2. My android phone 3. My creative mp3 player
The audiobook is in WMA format. So while I can install the overdrive software on #1 and 2, it absolutely refused to download the book on the assertion that I could not play the files.
That... pretty much would have meant that a binary blob for linux wouldn't have solved my particular usability issue at all. And it's the outright usability problem (as described in the comic) that I'm most interested in solving.
It's most definitely going to "need" a binary blob to deal with the DRM, but it should not "need" me to upgrade to ie8 because some activex control I need to download an updated certificate because their bloody process forced me to upgrade media player after I'd tried to view the content in it... Why isn't all the DRM in the blob? Why are audiobooks even in WMA format, which has got to be one of the most useless things?
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Re: what is left?
Date: October 4th, 2011 04:26 pm (UTC)I have three digital devices that could, in theory play the audiobook:
1. My mac laptop
2. My android phone
3. My creative mp3 player
The audiobook is in WMA format. So while I can install the overdrive software on #1 and 2, it absolutely refused to download the book on the assertion that I could not play the files.
That... pretty much would have meant that a binary blob for linux wouldn't have solved my particular usability issue at all. And it's the outright usability problem (as described in the comic) that I'm most interested in solving.
It's most definitely going to "need" a binary blob to deal with the DRM, but it should not "need" me to upgrade to ie8 because some activex control I need to download an updated certificate because their bloody process forced me to upgrade media player after I'd tried to view the content in it... Why isn't all the DRM in the blob? Why are audiobooks even in WMA format, which has got to be one of the most useless things?