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
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> 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
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>> 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" 
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>> 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
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>>> Subject: audio quality
>>> 
>>> in terms of audio quality for file types which is the best for archiving
>>> music/ or spoken word?
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