--- aubuti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 
> jelockwood;139504 Wrote: 
> > Apart from the FF/Rwd issue (does that affect FLAC as well?) I
> cannot
> > see any disadvantage to using ALAC over AIFF. ALAC is supported by
> all
> > the major hardware devices (SqueezeBox, Sonos ZonePlayer, Roku
> > SoundBridge via FireFly, and of course iPod!). It is possible to
> use it
> > in WinAmp and I even have it working in WMP 10 and Media Center
> 2005!
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but SqueezeBox does *not* have hardware
> support for ALAC.

I don't think anything except apple hardware directly supports ALAC,
the rest all support via transcoding on the PC, using either
quicktime or that reverse-engineered decoder (which has to play
catch-up when the format changes).

Josh


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