On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
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'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.)
-- brion
Not really, since in case of ALAC we would have to actually parse
MPEG-4 container format to ensure this is ALAC and not some other
patented MPEG-4 audio.
--vvv