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		lclarkmichalek on Oct 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Lossless Audio Codec is now open source (Apa... Nothing much? People with lossless collections in FLAC are likely to continue building them in FLAC. And if they switch over to AAC, then there is no loss. With free lossless audio codecs, everyone wins.

Samuel_Michon on Oct 28, 2011 [–]

ALAC ≠ AAC

ALAC : AAC : : FLAC : MP3

wollw on Oct 28, 2011 | [–]

Your point that ALAC != AAC is true and all but a better comparison would probably be

ALAC : AAC :: FLAC : Ogg Vorbis

Samuel_Michon on Oct 28, 2011 | | [–]

Agreed.

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