Subj : Re: conversion between lossless codecs
To   : August Abolins
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Sun Jan 02 2022 16:37:59

Hi August,

On 2022-01-02 09:57:00, you wrote to me:

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

For archiving you will have to consider: can it be decoded in 10, 20, 30, ... years. Will there be hardware + software available that can do that.

AppleLossless probably isn't opensource, Flac is. Apple can go bankrupt, Flac can't! ;)

Bye, Wilfred.

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