Why not WAV?

[hammill]

As do the latest blackberrys

 

[Lee H]

Odd side note. Debate raged in the office one day about BlackBerries or BlackBerrys, leading to contact being made with RIM to be told that it's BlackBerry Mobile Devices.

 

[jerryyeatman]

FLAC is not a standard. It is an obscure format few care about. If your wishing were enough, it would be a standard.

I don't understand why Apple should be anything other than deleriously happy with their position.

FLAC is THE standard, and more people care about it than any other lossless format.

I'm sure Apple are deleriously happy with their position, but do you think powerful companies who create needless and incompatible equivalents of accepted standards solely for their own financial gain and control are to be applauded?

 

[jerryyeatman]

[double post]

 

[Alec]

FLAC is not a standard. It is an obscure format few care about. If your wishing were enough, it would be a standard.

I don't understand why Apple should be anything other than deleriously happy with their position.

FLAC is THE standard, and more people care about it than any other lossless format.

I'm sure Apple are deleriously happy with their position, but do you think powerful companies who create needless and incompatible equivalents of accepted standards solely for their own financial gain and control are to be applauded?

I never once made a value judgement. And no, it isn't. Just because I enjoy saying it and winding you up

 

[hammill]

Odd side note. Debate raged in the office one day about BlackBerries or BlackBerrys, leading to contact being made with RIM to be told that it's BlackBerry Mobile Devices.

If you can have a raging debate on that, I hate to think what happens if you ever discuss politics or religion 🙂 Since BlackBerry is a trade name with an unnecessarily uppercased middle letter (IMHO), there is no reason it should follow the same rules as the berry, so my default position is to treat all words as having regular plurals unless otherwise informed. Mind you, I find it hard to accept that the plural of mongoose is mongooses.

 

[Cypher]

FLAC is THE standard ?

I think it's the least supported format out there. It should be more popular but it isn't.

 

[jerryyeatman]

It can be played on pretty much every platform:

Windows, Linux, Android, even iOS (search for free app OPlayer) and Cowon MP3 players, plus some others.

How many iTunes users buy ALAC?

 

[jerryyeatman]

 

[MajorFubar]

How many iTunes users buy ALAC?

None, because iTunes doesn't offer it. And the reason it doesn't offer it, if we really cut to the nitty gritty, is because not enough people give a **** about lossless music. Most people like the fact that their 8GB MP3 player can hold three trillion 128K MP3s and they're more than happy with the quality.

 

[fr0g]

FLAC is THE standard ?

I think it's the least supported format out there. It should be more popular but it isn't.

Nonsense. If you look around at legal download sites that provide LOSSLESS, they all sell FLAC. Some sell others as well, but FLAC is the original and standard.

Ones I have used... Linn, Boomkat, Bleep, HDTracks.

 

[Blackdawn]

To the OP, I may be old fashioned but I prefer WAV lossless. If you use Windows and their Media player just select WAV lossless in the options menu. Quality seems very high, all the track information is added to the media player via the internet. Now that hard drive space is so cheap why stick to compressed music files like MP3 format etc. Also my portable Samsung player supports WMA so syncs directly from Windows Media player in really high quality (no song info is lost). Windows and WAV are not going to suddenly disappear.

 

[MajorFubar]

That may be the case but WAV doesn't support tagging, which is why FLAC and Apple ALAC are better when it comes to making audio-libraries on computers and devices. There is no quality loss with FLAC or ALAC compared to WAV and anyone who insists there is (as some people still do), then they've been drinking the funny-stuff again.

 

[songox]

Why not try AIFF? There is no compression, has metadata and works on itunes! Had some 24bit WAVs was able to convert them to 24bit AIFF and add metadata! Its a winner for me!