Many thanks, I do realise that they are both lossless and sound the same, my (mad) reasoning was that if the ALAC files were being transcoded to FLAC on a real time basis there could be room for error, a bit like a CD player... oh look a bad bit, I'll skip that, or more along the lines of I'm a server and a busy at the moment so you will have do do without those odd bits.....
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