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Originally Posted by SeeMoreDigital
Evening,
Over the last few months I've received a few PM's from people over on the AVS forum enquiring applications that can generate ALAC encodes. Is this something that could be implemented?
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Well, since we already support ALAC
decoding via
refalac, adding
encoding support for ALAC wouldn't be too hard
However I'm relucant to add encoding support for
yet another "lossless" audio format.
We already have support for FLAC
and Monkey's, where FLAC is the
de facto standard for "lossless" audio today (with very good hardware support) and Monkey's is for those people who want that little bit of extra compression.
I see
no advantage in ALAC format, as compression is
no better than FLAC (actually slightly worse), whereas speed and playback support are inferior. Quality obviously is exactly the same for all "lossless" formats.