Potential serious bug in Apple Lossless codec in iTunes 10 Options

[Noble Tiger]

Hi everyone,

I'm using iTunes 10.0.1.22 on Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit.

I noticed a potential bug in the Apple Lossless Codec in iTunes 10 where if you convert a WAV or AIFF file to Apple Lossless format in iTunes, then convert it back to it's original file type (WAV or AIFF respectively) in iTunes, the resulting files are not the same size in bytes or in time length as the original WAV or AIFF files. The files are usually 5KB or so smaller and can be about 1 second shorter than the original files. I did extensive testing with this using various WAV and AIFF files both generated by iTunes (e.g. ripping a CD track) and by other programs and every time the Apple Lossless codec in iTunes does not convert back to the original file's length or file size. Apple Lossless should convert back exactly, but it isn't. In previous versions of iTunes it did, but not in 10.0.1.22. This may also effect the accuracy Apple Lossess (ALAC) file playback in iTunes and conversion to other formats within iTunes as well.

I think it's a bug, but can anyone else reproduce this on their systems? or is it just on my system?

To test in iTunes:

Convert a WAV to Apple Lossess then back to WAV and compare the two WAV's
Convert an AIFF to Apple Lossless then back to AIFF and compare the two AIFF's

[twostar]

I wonder if other pre-iTunes 10 versions are affected as well.