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Topic: Bumping a 38-month-old topic with a rant against Apple: ideal 1st post (Read 640 times) previous topic - next topic
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Bumping a 38-month-old topic with a rant against Apple: ideal 1st post

Quote from: /mnt on
WMA Lossless can be transcoded to AAC or ALAC in iTunes and it is possible to encode to WMA Lossless with EAC if you have the Windows Media Encoder 9 installed.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en

There is a ffmpeg Direct Show plugin someware, that might decode ALAC in WMP.


Oh, for heaven's sake, this is just another example of Apple only wanting to release stuff it can hold all the keys to. It's been their greatest undoing since the earliest days when they wondered why everyone wanted to buy IBM PCs with open specifications and freedom to create innovative hardware or software, simultaneously with no one wanted to buy a straitjacketed (and yet significantly user-friendlier, provided you only wanted to do the basic things) system released by themselves, with its top-secret hardware design, total 'security by obscurity' operating system and associated barrage of court cases, just awaiting anyone who dared to try to improve on any failures.

Why on earth did so few Apples sell I wonder?  And, here they are again, with FLAC, freely available, incredibly efficient, both in compression size and in processor usage and decoder simplicity. Such simplicity that it's dreamily easy to to encapsulate a decoder algorithm into a dedicated silicon chip for stand-alone mp3<spit>style players. But, will Apple allow - never mind writing it themselves - will Apple even *ALLOW* anyone to write a plugin for their software to enc/dec/-ode such a lovely (freely given) format? Will they heck.  :-(  Just shift over to a modern company's hardware and forget the dinosaurs until they wake up to the possibilities inherent in evolution.


Regards, Solipse

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