tomjtx;160134 Wrote: > So maybe it's a non issue. I don't think Apple can "put DRM" on my ALAC > files retroactively and ALAC will have DRM IF it's sold through > ITunes. > Since I would never buy from ITunes or any DRM site I should be safe in > using ALAC to rip my CD's......................right?
Yes, I'd say so, and yes, it certainly looks like a non-issue to me. Even if Apple could, by some fiendish means, (like the one Radish suggests - Nightmare!) retrospectively slap DRM on stuff that's already been ripped to ALAC, they'd be mad to try it. How could they possibly know what had been legally, and what illegally, coded into it? Think of the lawsuits! ALAC works with SlimServer, iPods and Macs, (don't know about PCs because I hardly use one for music, and when I do I use FLAC); iTunes app. makes tagging it a piece of cake; it saves 50 per cent of the space you'd use on an uncompressed format like WAV or AIFF; and if Apple does ever decide to drop it, because it is lossless it should be possible to convert it into any codec that might replace it - and iTunes already converts it easily into AIFF, keeping its tags, at the touch of a mouse. All that said, I personally prefer AIFF, despite the penalty in disc space. I get the impression (although this may be wrong - I haven't analysed or checked it) that I've had more problems with ALAC on a Squeezebox than with Aiff, possibly because SlimServer has to transcode it on the fly. Aiff certainly works natively on Slimserver just as well as FLAC, (and much better than WAV because of the latter's untaggability). However, it also has all of ALAC's advantages over FLAC if one happens to be a Mac and/or iPod user, and it burns a high quality CD (although, thinking about it, I've never tried this with Flac. Does Flac play in an ordinary domestic/car CD player?) It seems silly not to have the extra versatility, even though Aiff eats iPod storage like there's no tomorrow. Which is why I use both, I suppose! -- geraint smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------ geraint smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=625 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30325 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
