peter;295375 Wrote: 
> tyler_durden wrote:[color=blue]
> There's no DRM in ALAC files. There are open source ALAC decoders (like
> 
> the one Squeezebox uses) that can be used to convert ALAC back to WAV 
> and then WAV back to FLAC. All conversions are lossless so you lose 
> nothing. With lossy codecs you're more or less trapped because any 
> conversion makes you lose quality.

There may be open source decoders, but that only means someone has
figured out how to extract the audio from the files.  It doesn't tell
you what Apple has put into them.  I may be paranoid but my experience
and the experience of others convinces me that it is better to be a
little paranoid than to trust corporations to take care of you.

TD


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