The purpose of this topic is to gather opinions as to whether or not your observations are similar too – and therefore support – my own. ALAC to FLAC conversion no loss of quality?

ALAC is 16-bit and FLAC is 24-bit encoding, and FLAC has a higher sampling rate. When the record comes out, it's usually 100-200 MB, which is, by all means, impossible to store on a portable device. Yes and no. ALAC compares to CD quality, which is much better than most of your digital files. I went with ALAC simply because I have a bunch of iDevices and I wanted to manage my lossless files in iTunes.
FLAC does edge out ALAC regarding sound quality. Equipment Forums. They are equal, but it seems to me that FLAC is more widely accepted and used. However, ALAC works natively with Apple hardware and software while third part support is growing. ALAC (FLAC) is a lossless codec. So what you're buying when you're buying MQA files (or stream time) is genuinely worse than plain Redbook CD audio, far worse than standard 16-bit/48 kHz FLAC from higher quality sources when you play it with standard players and equipment. Feb 13, 2012. Better support in the Apple ecosystem. A minute of WAV audio (stereo, 16 bit, 44.1 kHz) will take up approximately 10 MB, about 11 times the size of 128 k/bit MP3. Apple Lossless (also known as Apple Lossless Encoder, ALE, or Apple Lossless Audio Codec, ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music. post-8143410. ALAC.

That's why compression reduced those original files to make them smaller … There are some technical merits that FLAC has over ALAC.

FLAC vs. MP3, in terms of quality, always wins. I'm in the process of moving around my lossless library to a new NAS system and, now that ALAC is open source, I've been pondering moving all my FLAC files to Apple Lossless (ALAC). Thread starter ABRockWell; Start date Feb 13, 2012; 1; 2; Next. Joined Jan 18, 2012 Posts 51 Likes 13.

Interpreting the above, bytes 5 and 6, which were originally 00 63, were changed to fe 62; byte 57 was changed from 12 to 10; and the two null bytes at 76 and 77 were dropped.. MQA files are artificially degraded FLAC files with far less resolution, only 13 bits vs. 16 bits as is common for music. Since WAV isn’t compressed, one WAV file will be significantly larger than FLAC. Both "FLACs vs. ALACs" are compressed versions of a record from a studio. 1 of 2 Go to page.
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