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   Hello Wilfred!   
      
   ** On Sunday 02.01.22 - 17:19, you wrote to me:   
      
    AA>> probably be too old to care.  ;)   Nobody else needs to   
    AA>> own my audio treasure except me.   
      
    WvV> Are you sure, it won't be of value in your inheritance to   
    WvV> someone? ;)   
      
   Sting was interviewed many years ago and asked a similar     
   question.  He said, "I'm not leaving anything for my kids.      
   They can work hard to build their own damn fortune" ..or     
   something along those lines.  I doubt that he's changed that     
   sentiment.  I have a similar attitude.   
      
      
    AA>> Apple can't render my existing iTunes program   
    AA>> inoperative.   
      
    WvV> Are you sure?   
      
   Pretty sure; it works quite fine offline.   
      
      
    WvV> And will your hardware+os the software runs on last as   
    WvV> long as the files? Do you have backups?   
      
   Not too worried about that. I have at least 2 other XP pcs, and     
   two Win7 pcs as alternatives.  I haven't really started a FLAC/    
   AppleLossless programme yet. I realized that a commited project     
   to convert 2000+ CDs would take a while! LOL.  And.. I would     
   really need some terrabytes of storage that I do not have.     
   Sofar, I haven't come across a CD of mine that isn't     
   represented on Spotify - so, the urgency to FLAC isn't there.   
      
      
    AA>> Besides.. I can always transcode the AppleLossless to   
    AA>> FLAC using something else.   
      
    WvV> Are you sure that will exist and function properly, after   
    WvV> Apple had gone bankrupt? ;)   
      
   I don't need iTunes to transcode AppleLossless to something     
   else. I've been using AnyCoder and dbPoweramp in that manner.   
      
   I doubt that Apple in particular would ever go bankrupt in my     
   remaining lifetime.  But there is nothing to say that they     
   wouldn't close down the iTunes service for lack of sales.      
   However, they are still competing with the likes of Spotify and     
   TIDAL.   
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