Hardware Flac support in N8

I'd like ask what the community think about adding support for more music formats? I was reading about the hardware specs of my N8, and I found out that it has a broadcom chip. This broadcom chip comes with some hardware support to many audio format, being more specific, flac. This format is very acclaimed by the audiophile community, without saying I'm one of them. flac is a excellent format since it is a lossless format. Now, knowing this, why Nokia don't add flac support to the default music player? the chip itself support it! What do you guys think about it? How can we suggest this to Nokia?

FLAC support for Symbian Anna/Belle would really be up to whoever wants to develop it for Nokia phones as it is an open source codec. You could try the old Oggplay for Symbian^1 devices to see if that will work.
http://symbianoggplay.sourceforge.net/
Alternatively, you could suggest the idea of developing a FLAC player over on the Nokia Ideas Project website and see if someone will take on the project.
 http://www.ideasproject.com/community/about
Ray. 

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