Apple lossless is ALAC. I've never seen anything encoded with it however. On Nov 13, 2011, at 7:37 AM, 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]
