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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: LossyFlac vs Opus 256
Last post by Porcus -On desktop, beware that not all players that support WavPack, will support hybrid. VLC didn't the last time I checked.
As to the question on ALAC: No, ALAC cannot utilize LossyWAV. LossyWAV works by selectively zeroing out the lower bits, and FLAC, WavPack and TAK (and OptimFROG, but you won't be playing that on portables) can know that "we can just compress as N bits and pad up with 16-N afterwards" (or 24-N or whatever) - but the ALAC format doesn't support that trick.