Quite. Apple lossless is for many one of only two pragmatic lossless options, the other being AIFF. That's not to say there's anything wrong with FLAC or that in a perfect world FLAC would not be the better solution. But strangely enough, in this particular dimension there are some people who do actually use iTunes and iPods. Rather more of them than use SBs, according to the sales figures. Some people have occasion and good reason to use both, and really don't want to put up streaming lossy garbage to their really nice electrostatic speakers, for equally good reasons. There is no good reason why anyone should expect them to. Which suggests that this ill informed "fanboy" nonsense is not only entirely apt to the subject line, but also purblind and moronic.
As for trying to have a thread here - well, I was just trying to get some kip by reading crap about ALAC again. On 2 Oct 2011, at 02:20, Wombat wrote: > > Please no Fanboy talk, it leads to nothing. > > Apple lossless is fine! > Having the choice to have it around is obviously a good point to > lossless and people discovering it. > One of the few things that were effectively reverse-engineered was just > that, ALAC. > There is even one person that did it that fine it beats the Apple own > compression ratio all the time :) Apple did stay calm about that and > tolerates it. > > If someone wants to use the limited but complete, easy world of Apple > just should use it, no room for criticism. > > Thats what i thought till lately... > Now that Apple sues Samsung for copying ideas and even was able to > enforce a prohibition of sale for Samsung products in Germany i really > have to rething this whole situaton... > > > -- > Wombat > > Transporter (modded) -> RG142 -> Avantgarde Acoustic based 500VA > monoblocks -> Sommer SPK240 -> self-made speakers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Wombat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4113 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90496 > > _______________________________________________ > audiophiles mailing list > audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
