What a lovely little rant, but nobody really asked for it. But XLD and MAX fail to win some peoples favor as. they certainly won't be adding FLAC all of a sudden onto formats compatible with iDevices). Actually there are several free Mac programs that can convert CD to FLAC, like X Lossless Decoder and Max. ALAC will work with all Apple iDevices, and as it's been open licensed (although it was already reverse engineered beforehand anyway), it's likely to work on non-Apple devices going into the future.įLAC on the other hand will never be able to be used natively on Apple iDevices, as Apple have firmly nailed their cross to the mast on wanting to use ALAC with some kind of adaptive streaming which FLAC won't work with (ie. Most knowledgeable users are using *lossless* formats now, as they can be re-formatted back to WAV (and/or into other lossy formats) ad infinitum, and storage is cheap (and small devices will get a lot more storage in future & use cloud services for storage/syncing too).ĪLAC and FLAC are the two leading ones.īoth ALAC and FLAC are open licensed now. MP3? Sure you want to be using that (lossy format) in this day and age for both archiving and sales it is NOT good longterm.
Can anyone recommend a free or cheap WAV to mp3 converter?
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