tyler_durden;294822 Wrote: > As for Apple- they have a "lossless" compression format that is > proprietary. Why would they develop their own when open source > compression formats exist? Because they want control.
This isn't totally accurate... Apple's lossless CODEC was co-authored with Dolby Labs and others, and is capable of carrying up to 8-channels of interleved audio. I don't think FLAC can do that. I do use FLAC for some things, but ALAC handles 95% of my music rips because I know that, even though it may be 'proprietary', it will ALWAYS work and be backwards compatible. BTW, I was at the NAB Convention in Las Vegas last week and walked by the Fraunhofer booth. They have come up with a lossless AAC CODEC, capable of carrying 6-channels of audio at a data rate of 192kbps. -- Eric Seaberg Eric Seaberg - San Diego - [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Mac MINI server w/ 500GB external - Multiple SB3s and Transporter Tannoy and Genelec Bi & Tri-Amped Studio Monitors - 5.1 Surround Recording Engineer/Producer since 1971 - Member AES, SPARS, SMPTE and NARAS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Seaberg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7896 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46690 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
