> What happens when Apple Computer loses any court > battle with Apple Records and is forced to either > get out > of the music business or give its music technology > to > Apple Records? > > I love Apple, but I hate their music distribution > ideas > and anything having to do with proprietary formats. > > Go FLAC, you'll never go back. Another good thing > is that if you go with flac, the decode is happening > > on the sb2. With apple lossless, the decode is > happening on the server.
But, what if you have a very large music collection and use an iPod where you interchange tracks often? This would mean that for every new track you want on your ipod, you'll have to go to your flac library, decompress the file, import it into iTunes, tag it in iTunes, compress it to the format of choice and then place the file on your iPod. I have no problems with FLAC (and the fact that the SB2 natively supports FLAC has me drooling), but the ability to keep all my music in iTunes in a lossless format keeps me using Apple Lossless (even if I have sold my soul to the devil). - Chris ps - I know someone is going to bring up the fact that there are alternatives to the iPod, like the iRiver. However, I've found that the iRiver for all it can do is nowhere near as good of a portable music player. In addition, iTunes is a great program for cataloging your music collection. pss - Aren't you being a little over dramatic in your scenario above? I highly doubt Apple Lossless is just going to disappear one day in the blink of an eye with nothing left on the planet to support it. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
