funkstar;286047 Wrote: 
> That may be so, but they may have licensed the software. I don't know
> the ins and outs of it, I'm just guessing here. It may be the case that
> the SB/Transporter could easily have in built playback of ALAC if it
> just had a little more flash memory. Again, only guessing :)

Apple don't license anything, which is why only iTunes can encode ALAC
right now. Everybody pretty much uses the same open source ALAC decoder
instead.

Sounds to me like it's the memory limitation more than anything.


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