philippe_44 wrote: > My 2 cents: use Flac, no hesitation. > > MP4 format is a real pain to handle and there is always something wrong > with it. Reading mp4 documentation and writing or using a parser makes > me nauseous. > > Flac is simple, straightforward, takes 10 mins to understand the > documentation. Flac is streamable. Flac can easily be encapsulated in > Ogg as well. > > Im talking about mp4 in general, as a container, your use case would be > using alac inside. I do not think alac gives you better compression or > lower cpu usage or lower memory requirement, which does not matter these > days anyways. > > Everybody supports Flac, not alac. Ive implemented both of them on > multiple platforms, including esp32 embedded system and I will always go > for alac. On my bridges, Ive chosen alac as a re-encoder option again > because all platforms support it. > > Now, you may have extreme metadata expectations that might be better > served by mp4, that I would not know.
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