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Each format has its own pros and cons, but for me the priority was universality, and alac bests flac on that score, bc u can use alac natively with both windows and apple, and most other products that support flac also support alac...
It is not easy to use flac with apple stuff, & not native, (last time I checked anyway) and if multiple people use and access the files, it’s just the simplest solution.
I think frank misread what I wrote earlier, I was saying both alac and flac provide proper tagging over wav, and it’s just a matter of preference if u desire a documented standard, or a more ad hoc one, I have np with either.
Again, the enabling of native use of apple gear issue, in addition to windows or other gear, was the deciding factor for me.
Anyway, whatever works for each usage case is fine by me. -mdw
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Jerry Baker jbaker6953-/[email protected] [EAC] <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 2:09:03 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [EAC] 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.