AREA:AUDIO   
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   Hi August,   
      
   On 2022-01-02 11:09:00, you wrote to me:   
      
    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.   
      
    AA> For 10 years, I'm not too worried. For 20, maybe.  For 30, I'll   
    AA> probably be too old to care.  ;)   Nobody else needs to own my   
    AA> audio treasure except me.   
      
   Are you sure, it won't be of value in your inheritance to someone? ;)   
      
    WvV>> AppleLossless probably isn't opensource, Flac is. Apple   
    WvV>> can go bankrupt, Flac can't! ;)   
      
    AA> Apple can't render my existing iTunes program inoperative.   
      
   Are you sure?   
      
   And will your hardware+os the software runs on last as long as the files? Do   
   you have backups?   
      
    AA> Besides.. I can always transcode the AppleLossless to FLAC   
    AA> using something else.   
      
   Are you sure that will exist and function properly, after Apple had gone   
   bankrupt? ;)   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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