There are also file formats limitations, for instance, Audacity can't natively import or export WMA, AAC, ACS or
other proprietary file formats requiring FFmpeg library.
Not exact matches
While many earlier player piano systems rely on midi data
files (compressed, low - resolution data
files) and
others rely on even lower resolution
files for playback, Steinway & Sons is recording at the highest resolution possible, and has created a
proprietary data
file format that captures the nuances and full range of emotion from each artist's performance.
Some publishers supply
proprietary ready -
formatted digital
files to retailers and
other commercial partners.,
Others supply their trading partners with standard source
files -LRB-.
They recently deployed the ability to let you deploy your own finished EPUB
file, but for any
other format they sell on their site, they expect you to hand them a Microsoft Word
file formatted in a certain way so they can throw it through their own
proprietary conversion program and generate all the various
formats they can sell.
Micah is correct, the Kindle
file format is
proprietary which, in addition to the Amazon - enforced DRM, keeps their e-books from being shared on
other devices (whether popped open by Calibre or not.)
Other (Amazon Kindle for example) convert EPUB
files into their own
proprietary formats and don't allow consumers to directly «sideload» EPUB
files.
While Apple uses the same
file format and DRM standards as
other major online booksellers, Amazon has its own
proprietary file format and DRM scheme.
Hamster eBook Converter Is a 100 % Free Download and Easy Way to Move eBooks Between Devices - allows you to convert eBook
files in
proprietary formats for Sony, iRiver, Amazon, Kobo, and
other eBook readers into a version that can be read on any
other reader, or on all of them as a simple PDF or
file format they all understand.
The
other 4 major online stores don't have a
proprietary format or DRM (Apple actually has, but this differentiation is not relevant in this post), and they sell content in the EPUB
file format (the de-facto industry standard developed by the IDPF organization) and use the Adobe DRM (that is a
proprietary DRM
file format developed by Adobe).
While the Kindle itself allows you to open some
other file formats, the stuff you buy and download for the Kindle (and Kindle software) from Amazon.com is encoded in a
proprietary DRM scheme — AZW
files that only Kindle can read.
csv
file than any
other format, and especially over a
proprietary locked down data
file.