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Re: [ARSCLIST] flac vs. apple lossless
On 05/04/07, Matthew Snyder wrote:
>> On the other hand, I don't see the community which surrounds FLAC and
>> Ogg as being nearly as driven or committed as the Apple people have
>> been, as such, I think there is *some* concern about FLACs long-term
>> viability.
>
> I think this is debatable. My experience so far with the online
> trading community is that FLAC seems to be the standard. There is an
> enormous amount of that format floating around, enough to suggest that
> there will be some kind of demand for it, albeit limited to the
> collecting community. Even if it is phased out, there may be a
> transitional period. This happened with Shorten. It used to be the
> standard, and you still see it being circulated (quite a lot,
> actually), but I've been transferring those over to FLAC, just in
> case. Then again, I'm talking about a limited community of users, so
> perhaps the point is moot?
Provided a format is fully documented, there is no problem. Any competent
programmer can create a converter, even years after a format goes out of
use.
It is the formats that are both commercial and undocumented that are
dangerous.
>
> On a related point, and somewhat off-topic, what are the relative
> merits of WinRAR (the new kid on the block) and Winzip?
>
> Matt Snyder
> Music Archivist
> Wilson Processing Project
> The New York Public Library
>
Regards
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Don Cox
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