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Which codecs will be around for the long haul?

Apple Lossless
[ 8 ] (7.5%)
FLAC
[ 76 ] (71.7%)
La
[ 0 ] (0%)
LPAC
[ 0 ] (0%)
Monkey's Audio
[ 1 ] (0.9%)
OptimFROG
[ 1 ] (0.9%)
Shorten, Shorten
[ 1 ] (0.9%)
TTA
[ 0 ] (0%)
WavPack
[ 9 ] (8.5%)
Windows Media Encoder 9 Series
[ 10 ] (9.4%)

Total Members Voted: 158

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Which has best chance at development longevity?

Reply #25 –
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If any, ReallyRareWares is a good example that most codecs, even very unpopular ones, can be preserved for posterity.
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Right... In that way, open-source is also safe for posterity only if source are still available somewhere.

But I suppose that people arguing with open-source=future have in mind the possibility to port the code to new OS. Old binaries won't necessary work on future OS.

On the other side, open-source format won't be necessary decodable in the future: it supposes someone to compile source code (most people I suppose can't do that).

Which has best chance at development longevity?

Reply #26 –
Some of these open-source-fanatics seem to believe that a post-apocalyptic-scenario is near ... and there will be no greater need then as to keep vorbis/flac alive 

Which has best chance at development longevity?

Reply #27 –
...and to switch from one monopoly to another one

Which has best chance at development longevity?

Reply #28 –
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The longevity of lossless formats, when you can easily transcode from one to the other?

Which has best chance at development longevity?

Reply #29 –
How can you be so sure it'll fall off the internet?

I've been maintaining RareWares for almost 4 years now. ReallyRareWares is in its infancy. Also, it gives me much more pleasure to maintain than RareWares, since I just love research work, and maintenance takes much less effort. Unless I'm left without any web space to use (and I believe I can count on several friends in this community and elsewhere to help me with hosting), ReallyRareWares won't go down.
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Anything and everything does.

I think you run a great site and you put a lot of effort into it, though. Maybe you can have a script that puts the whole site into a /site.tar.gz or /site.tar.bz2 file when anything changes.

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Anything and everything does.
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Yes, yes, Nostradamus.

I won't bother arguing, your arguments are useless and pathetic.

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Apple released a proprietary version because they couldn't wait - what, two years already? - for the standardization of MPEG4 ALS to release their lossless codec. They would lag behind the competition (MS, Real) that was releasing their own lossless codecs by then.

And I got this information directly from an Apple engineer.
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Interesting. I wonder if they add full support for ALS once it is complete. It seems to be the perfect format because it's open and backwards compatible.

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The longevity of lossless formats, when you can easily transcode from one to the other?
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Exactly, someone didn't think things through very well.

I've been building a collection of lossless files (I use WavPack, for no other reason than I love the way bryant develops it (mmm, asymmetry)), and as soon as I see a non-WavPack-lossless file, it gets transcoded in a couple clicks into WavPack lossless. If there's some new killer lossless format that comes out, well... click-click-click-wait. Done.