In all fairness ALAC is very similar to FLAC in its inner workings, but differs in arbitrary, minor ways that result in more complexity over FLAC (and of course

In all fairness ALAC is very similar to FLAC in its inner workings, but differs in arbitrary, minor ways that result in more complexity over FLAC (and of course, incompatibility) for little gain. I'm paraphrasing from a post from the FLAC developer himself [1], after someone released an ALAC decoder created through reverse-engineering the format, back in 2005. [1] https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,32111.msg279843.html#msg279843 https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,32111.msg279843.html#...