Re: [SurroundSound] Re: Surround in the car

I wish Apple would support FLAC.  However, the true point here is that if you have Apple gear you can still have lossless audio and going back and forth between FLAC and ALAC is pretty easy.  The win is that iDevices can support lossless.

On Thursday, November 29, 2012 1:49:54 PM UTC-5, pj-mckay wrote:

And here's the real CRUX of the matter.  Apple supports ITS OWN format.  Why??    Obviously purely to tie folk into their ecosystem further, and ties in with why I logged on tonight.  Many folk questioned the use of flac and open standards quite rightly, and it reminded me that I also have to make choices.  That's where mp3 hit it off, in the same way as cassettes did 40 years ago; It's a common format and should be appreciated more, especially at higher bit rates. (Please don't respond telling me AAC is lower file size for the same quality;  I don't care.  It's marginal and unimportant)

For me....

a) MP3 as it plays on ALL my players whether they be PC, iPod, Creative Zen, Android, everything.

b) My video has to be converted to a common format (mpeg) and AC3 audio to play in ALL my video devices.  I'm not saying it's the best; just that I can convert to that successfully.

I have Apple kit in the shape of iphone and pad (from work) and the kids have ipods and it's greats stuff but I totally abhor an ecosystem that ties you to them and excludes others.  Even to the extent that they tried to force folk into AAC but at least can play mp3 now.  Ooooohh   It makes me angry that they block every other p[layer from itunes.

So..  whilst Apple may support ALAC.  Why would ANYONE want to convert open system flac to something 'as good'?  Where's the benefit to me, us?  I see plenty negatives but no positives (but will listen to sensible responses).

On Thursday, 29 November 2012 14:01:25 UTC, Joe A wrote:

Regarding Apple and FLAC, Apple and its ecosystem support their own lossless format ALAC. Granted at the moment at only comes by ripping your own CDs in iTunes but if you have a FLAC collection it can be interchangeably converted back and forth with ALAC as there is no generational loss.  

Note this applies to 44/16 stereo material.  ALAC actually does support high res multichannel but the iDevices are limited in what their DACs can handle.

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