FLAC is a lossless format but nothing whatever to do with Apple, FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Coding, not exactly sure about the last word so I'm sure someone will correct me on that point.
On 13/11/2011, at 11:37 PM, Richard Claypool wrote: > my bad, I thought flac was apple lossless. > > -----Original Message----- From: Brent Harding > Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 3:26 PM > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Re: audio quality > > Yes, but that could change now that Apple recently made it open source. I > don't know what would make it any better than flac, shn, or any of the > others except if you used an Ipod, now you can generate the files with other > tools. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hamit Campos" <[email protected]> > To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 1:49 PM > Subject: RE: audio quality > > >> Ah see that's the thing about Apple Losless, If you use it, you have to play >> it either on your Ipod, or Itunes. So If you don't have them, or if you >> don't care for them, then what's the point? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Brent Harding >> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 12:42 PM >> To: PC Audio Discussion List >> Subject: Re: audio quality >> >> I heard that Apple made their lossless format open source. I'm not sure why >> they would do that or what makes it better or different than the rest >> besides it locked you in when it wasn't open source. I'm not sure if anyone >> made tools yet using it though if one doesn't use Itunes. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Claypool" >> <[email protected]> >> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 10:14 AM >> Subject: Re: audio quality >> >> >>> I don't use wma lossless, the bootleggers I deal with use flac, and it's >>> not limited to windows. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- From: Hamit Campos >>> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 10:27 AM >>> To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' >>> Subject: RE: audio quality >>> >>> Yep, PCM 44100 KHZ 16 bit is fine for music, that's what CDs are anyways. >>> Even wma lossless would be fine but only WMP can make it. That's why I >>> wish >>> Olympus would dump regular old WMA, and get WMA Losless on their >>> recorders. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >>> On Behalf Of Sunshine >>> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 12:24 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: audio quality >>> >>> in terms of audio quality for file types which is the best for archiving >>> music/ or spoken word? >>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>> [email protected] >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>> [email protected] >>> >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [email protected] >> >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> [email protected] >> > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [email protected]
