On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think that puts FLAC and Apple Lossless in pretty much the same boat: we
> probably ought to allow upload in those formats as nice lossless source
> material, but it'd be nice if we can consistently automatically transcode
> them to something that plays consistently in browsers at suitable
> live-download bitrates. (Ogg Vorbis and, in a world with slightly less
> patent madness, MP3.)
>
> -- brion

Not really, since in case of ALAC we would have to actually parse
MPEG-4 container format to ensure this is ALAC and not some other
patented MPEG-4 audio.

--vvv

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