--- Pat Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> kkitts wrote:
> > That's the first I heard that it won't play all files. Are there
> certain
> > kinds of files that it won't play? I'm just wondering how likely
> I'd be
> > to run into this problem.
> 
> Josh is *the* world expert on FLAC. I would not expect him to be an 
> authoritative source on an Apple codec, Apple is the only real source
> there. Its closed. They don't share.

yes :)  but this is by the author's own admission
http://craz.net/programs/itunes/alac.html

even though he mentions only supporting 16 bits mono/stereo,
in any format reverse engineering effort, there is always the
possibility of some stream using some feature you did not encounter,
or for a later version of the encoder to add some feature.  this
has already happened at least once with this decoder.

I'm hoping the rumored upcoming core audio support for FLAC in
leopard means apple will be moving towards FLAC but I encourage
people to petition via the link above to make sure FLAC becomes
a first class codec in itunes.

Josh



       
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