Full Version: Are Apple Lossless truly lossless?
Did anyone bother to do a bit comparison between the original wav and the wav produced from the decoding of the ALAC file?
QUOTE (someone @ Feb 18 2006, 12:37 PM)
Did anyone bother to do a bit comparison between the original wav and the wav produced from the decoding of the ALAC file?
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....alac+comparison
Yeah right. Don't you think that any sane developer(s) would have done these tests already ?
QUOTE (shadowking @ Feb 18 2006, 02:06 PM)
Yeah right. Don't you think that any sane developer(s) would have done these tests already ?
Well, in case of Apple, I am not so sure. After all, we are looking at the same company who can't do gapless playback on a lossless format. This speaks a lot about their supposed "attention to the details".
Apple lossless format is gapless. iTunes and iPod aren't gapless, but it's the case for 99,99% of current "MP3" digital players and a lot of software ones. It's very common to NOT have gapless support nowadays... but it's not common to see lossless format not being... lossless.
QUOTE (guruboolez @ Feb 18 2006, 02:33 PM)
Apple lossless format is gapless. iTunes and iPod aren't gapless, but it's the case for 99,99% of current "MP3" digital players and a lot of software ones. It's very common to NOT have gapless support nowadays... but it's not common to see lossless format not being... lossless.
And I thought it's reverse situation... No wonder Apple isn't too worried about gapless.
This topic is useless. Even the stupidest of companies would not market a lossless format without having made sure it lived up to its name.
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