Subj : Re: conversion between lossless codecs
To   : August Abolins
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Sun Jan 02 2022 17:19:03

Hi August,

On 2022-01-02 11:09:00, you wrote to me:

 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.

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

Are you sure, it won't be of value in your inheritance to someone? ;)

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

 AA> Apple can't render my existing iTunes program inoperative.

Are you sure?

And will your hardware+os the software runs on last as long as the files? Do you have backups?

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

Are you sure that will exist and function properly, after Apple had gone bankrupt? ;)

Bye, Wilfred.

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