Timothy Stockman wrote: > Maybe now that Apple is making moves away from DRM (which I'm guessing > was part of ALAC but never used), and since FLAC is becoming the > defacto standard for lossless audio, maybe they will move toward FLAC.
We can dream, but I'd not hold my breath > So far I haven't been interested in Ipod because of its DRM and > proprietary lossless format, but I might be interested if they get past > those two things. I've got a bit more than 300 GB (and counting) of > FLAC encoded audio at this point (encoding Santana III 30th aniv ed as > I type this), so it would be convenient for me if Apple supported FLAC. There are hacked firmware for iPods that support FLAC and add lots of other cool features. But lossless has downsides, it is bigger, so there is the obvious smaller number of tunes, but bigger is that bigger means more disk access, and so shorter battery life. For most of the world, the same folks who listen to over-compressed radio, the difference is quality is not important, so FLAC his downsides for mass market. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
