tomjtx;169120 Wrote: > Robin, > Do you have a way to easily convert ALAC to FLAC? > > I am very much plug and play re computers and I only know how to push > the button the software tells me to push. > > I would like to try FLAC and I think it could be a good idea to have my > files backed up to FLAC even if I continue to use Itunes. > > Tom
DBPoweramp will do it for a whole tree. I recently did it. I _did_ have a problem with some files that I ripped after my most recent itunes update. Some of these I _was_ able to transcode using foobar's converter. Others I had to re-rip. This makes me wonder a bit about what exactly went into that last itunes "upgrade". This brings me to my biggest worry about a closed proprietary format. There is _nothing_ to prevent the owner of such a format from making changes to it at any time. This could include adding drm, making it impossible to convert, _whatever they want_. FLAC is open source, so even if the guy who wrote it decided to do something like this (afaik _extremely_ unlikely), there is nothing to stop anyone interested from forking at that point. This is a pretty major big deal for me. Maybe not for you, but it _is_, at some level, a technical difference. Please note that noone here has advocated trusting M$, either. And lafayette, for someone who claims to love logic, you do seem to be prone to spout off on technical subjects of which you know essentially nothing (such as networking). Asserting what you want to be true merely because you believe it is hardly the mark of a logician. Also- you might want to note that the subject of logic is taught at the higher levels in philosophy, math, and computer science departments, _not_ law school (unless proof theory, constructive type theory, recursion theory, etc have suddenly become hot topics in law schools). Your constant harping on your profession basically amounts to a pretty feeble argument by authority (your own). -Michael -- totoro squeezebox 3 -> mccormack dna .5 -> audio physic tempo 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31480 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
