Subj : conversion between lossless codecs
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Jan 02 2022 11:09:00

Hello Wilfred van Velzen!

** On Sunday 02.01.22 - 16:37, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> From that, I gained confidence that AppleLossless is
 AA>> quite fine for "archiving"...

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

For 10 years, I'm not too worried. For 20, maybe.  For 30, I'll  
probably be too old to care.  ;)   Nobody else needs to own my  
audio treasure except me.


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

Apple can't render my existing iTunes program inoperative.  So,  
I'm fine with that.  The iTunes prog only complains about  
access and requires a login only when you click on the "Store"  
button.

Besides.. I can always transcode the AppleLossless to FLAC  
using something else.
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