On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Magnus Manske <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:magnusmanske@googlemail.com">magnusmanske@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
The Apple Lossless Audio Codec has been released under Apache license 2.0:<br>
<a href="http://alac.macosforge.org/trac/wiki" target="_blank">http://alac.macosforge.org/trac/wiki</a><br>
<br>
Something to add to the Commons file format portfolio? Do we support<br>
FLAC already?<br></blockquote><div><br>I think that puts FLAC and Apple Lossless in pretty much the same boat: we probably ought to allow upload in those formats as nice lossless source material, but it&#39;d be nice if we can consistently automatically transcode them to something that plays consistently in browsers at suitable live-download bitrates. (Ogg Vorbis and, in a world with slightly less patent madness, MP3.)<br>
<br>-- brion<br></div></div>