Chris Glushko wrote:
If you are an iPod user and you like using iTunes to manage your music, wouldn't Apple Lossless be the most logical choice for your primary archive?
Well, it might be -- if you're willing to spend all that precious iPod disk space on a lossless format. If you insist on lossless even on your iPod, then Apple Lossless is your only choice.
I understand the preference to Open Source, but aren't you just adding extra work for yourself for nothing more than to spite apple if you are an iTunes/iPod user?
Well, for one thing I didn't buy an iPod. Even though I have several Macs and do use iTunes, I bought an iRiver 340 specifically to get Ogg support. If Apple were to support Ogg Vorbis on the iPod, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
That said, the numbers I've seen tend to indicate that FLAC achieves somewhat better compression ratios than Apple Lossless. Also, FLAC supports Vorbis-style metatags, which I consider vastly superior to either MP3 ID tags or the iTunes practice of keeping all the meta information in a separate massive XML file. I invest a lot of time getting the metainfo right, especially on classical music, so the right tag format matters.
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