Re: old burned cd file in wav

Not to disparage Fred's expertise in any way, but even the European
Broadcasting Union uses FLAC, and not ALAC. To quote from the official FLAC
website, "FLAC stands out as the fastest and most widely supported lossless
audio codec, and the only one that at once is non-proprietary, is
unencumbered by patents, has an open-source reference implementation, has a
well documented format and API, and has several other independent
implementations."

The format is standardized. It is supported by an organization (xiph.org)
that guarantees that. Being also a "de facto" standard is actually an
advantage: it means that many products, organizations, and people have
chosen to use it in preference to something else, so it is more likely to
be supported on any platform.

Anyway, it's a non-issue, since one can convert back and forth between FLAC
and ALAC without any loss (except your own time).

Cheers -- m.

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