Subj : conversion between lossless codecs
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Jan 02 2022 09:57:00

Hello Wilfred!

** On Sunday 02.01.22 - 12:26, you wrote to me:

 AA>> We tested recordings with quiet passages, and specific
 AA>> recordings that featured super low pipe-organ notes. They
 AA>> all seemed to reproduce in FLAC and AppleLossless equally
 AA>> well.

 WvV> That is to be expected with lossless encodings. The
 WvV> surprise would be if they didn't! ;)

It came at a time when I didn't have a way to play FLAC  
directly for the long-term (I only had VLC). But I read  
somewhere that conversion between lossless codecs was..  
lossless.  So, the tests included the comparison of FLAC  
converted to AppleLossless.

From that, I gained confidence that AppleLossless is quite fine  
for "archiving" certain parts of my collections and had  
assurance that I could always reconstitute a fine physical  
audio CD specimen out of them if required.

I purchased a 4-CD set of one of the The Band's live  
performances, The Last Waltz, from eBay, for a friend. A bit to  
my shock and horror, the set was missing Disc 4.  :/   But a CD  
produced in the FLAC->AppleLossless->CD process saved the day.

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