Re: old burned cd file in wav

WavPack is also open source and offers slightly better compression than 
FLAC. It has the unique ability to do lossy encoding (like MP3, MP4), 
but with a separate correction file that can be used to restore the 
original lossless version by combining it with the lossy file. It also 
supports MD5 checksums to verify audio integrity.

It's an interesting, open format.

On 9/29/2020 10:44 AM, Fred Maxwell [email protected] [EAC] wrote:
> I also keep my collection as ALAC (AKA Apple Lossless) and I agree with 
> Mike regarding the standardization advantage it has. The ALAC standards 
> are well-documented by Apple. A simple test for ALAC files is whether 
> Apple’s music apps are ‘happy’ with them, play them, and display the tag 
> data properly. If a file doesn’t work with Apple’s own apps, then there 
> is almost certainly something wrong with the file.
> 
> 
> Like FLAC, ALAC is open source, with Apple having released the ALAC 
> source code under the Apache license almost a decade ago.