On 28 October 2011 19:24, Victor Vasiliev vasilvv@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Brion Vibber brion@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.)
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.
I recall vague plans to allow upload and automatic conversion of encumbered formats ... most such conversions would be lossy, which is problematic, but converting encumbered lossless audio formats to FLAC would be, of course, lossless. What was the barrier to upload autoconversion? Did it turn out to be unfeasible?
- d.