AREA:AUDIO   
   TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815   
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   Hi August,   
      
   On 2022-01-02 09:57:00, you wrote to me:   
      
    AA> From that, I gained confidence that AppleLossless is quite fine   
    AA> for "archiving" certain parts of my collections and had   
    AA> assurance that I could always reconstitute a fine physical   
    AA> audio CD specimen out of them if required.   
      
   For archiving you will have to consider: can it be decoded in 10, 20, 30, ...   
   years. Will there be hardware + software available that can do that.   
      
   AppleLossless probably isn't opensource, Flac is. Apple can go bankrupt, Flac   
   can't! ;)   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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