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I prefer to buy lossless formats. For playback I can encode them in Opus. M4A is not a proper open format, it's patent encumbered.
by shmerl 5y ago
I prefer to buy lossless formats. For playback I can encode them in Opus. M4A is not a proper open format, it's patent encumbered.
- iggldiggl 5y agoThe patents on AAC-LC (which is all that really matters when encoding at medium to high bitrates, and that very much applies to the files sold by the iTunes store, too) should have expired by now, given that it dates from 1997, and indeed Fedora has been including an AAC-LC encoder since late 2017.