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   Hello Wilfred van Velzen!   
      
   ** On Sunday 02.01.22 - 16:37, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:   
      
    AA>> From that, I gained confidence that AppleLossless is   
    AA>> quite fine for "archiving"...   
      
    WvV> For archiving you will have to consider: can it be   
    WvV> decoded in 10, 20, 30, ... years. Will there be hardware   
    WvV> + software available that can do that.   
      
   For 10 years, I'm not too worried. For 20, maybe.  For 30, I'll     
   probably be too old to care.  ;)   Nobody else needs to own my     
   audio treasure except me.   
      
      
    WvV> AppleLossless probably isn't opensource, Flac is. Apple   
    WvV> can go bankrupt, Flac can't! ;)   
      
   Apple can't render my existing iTunes program inoperative.  So,     
   I'm fine with that.  The iTunes prog only complains about     
   access and requires a login only when you click on the "Store"     
   button.   
      
   Besides.. I can always transcode the AppleLossless to FLAC     
   using something else.   
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     ../|ug   
      
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