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FINALLY!!! But what does this mean for the future of FLAC?

• lclarkmichalek 15y ago
  Nothing much? People with lossless collections in FLAC are likely to continue building them in FLAC. And if they switch over to AAC, then there is no loss. With free lossless audio codecs, everyone wins.
  • Samuel_Michon 15y ago
    ALAC ≠ AAC ALAC : AAC : : FLAC : MP3
    • wollw 15y ago
      Your point that ALAC != AAC is true and all but a better comparison would probably be ALAC : AAC :: FLAC : Ogg Vorbis
      • Samuel_Michon 15y ago
        Agreed.
• metajack 15y ago
  The Xiph.org project has always maintained that if there are royalty free audio codecs available for everyone, then we've won. We never cared that they were ours, but no one else seemed to be building them. It's a little silly that Apple rolled their own when a perfectly good option was available, but the world still wins. I hope they try and get it standardized. That would make it even better.