Has anyone done any work towards implementing a real audio codec in the player software? Can codecs simply be plugged into the player, or does it require hacking into the player software?

The reason I would like to play real audio files is because there are radio programs that archive their broadcasts in real audio format, and it would be nice to be able to copy those to the empeg directly. I know that the other option is first to convert them to mp3, but of course that would be time consuming.

Is there anyone else doing this kind of thing?