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frou_dh on Oct 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Lossless Audio Codec is now open source (Apa...

I've got all my CDs ripped in ALAC so that I can use the iTunes option to have the tracks automatically transcoded to smaller, lossy AAC when putting them on iDevices.

I welcome this open sourcing because it makes my 'archival' format slightly less oddball.

sitkack on Oct 28, 2011 [–]

ffmpeg already can transcode from alac to flac, I rip with itunes and transcode to flac for my Sansa Clip.

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