Personally I think this is bad news. It is the thin end of a wedge that will see ALAC slowly surplant FLAC as the de-facto lossless codec of choice. I don't trust Apple's motives. Just because this particular release of their codec is now in the wild does not mean future versions will be. I predict that once Apple has rendered other lossless codecs obsolete, they will "improve" ALAC and keep it closed source, then extract lucrative licence fees from all the third parties who have followed the herd.
This quote from the article has it completely backwards: > If more people begin adopting ALAC instead of FLAC, it'll make life a > lot easier for audiophiles. Rather than everyone else adding support for ALAC, wouldn't it just be easier for Apple to support FLAC? -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91185 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
