On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Magnus Manske <
magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
The Apple Lossless Audio Codec has been released
under Apache license 2.0:
http://alac.macosforge.org/trac/wiki
Something to add to the Commons file format portfolio? Do we support
FLAC already?
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.)
I went ahead and tossed in Bugzilla entries for these:
FLAC:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32103
Apple Lossless:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32104
That TimedMediaHandler extension needs to get finished up and deployed or
we're going to miss all this format fun. :)
There's also an older bug entry requesting support for WAV and AIFF uploads
with automatic transcoding *to* FLAC (as an archival format, I think):
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20252
Certainly accepting .wav input would be handy at times; .wav transcode
*output* may also be useful for short audio clips on mobile (MP3 is also
very widely supported, but patents blah bla).
-- brion