Which one is better and why exactly?
Apple Lossless (AAC) Vs FLAC
Liam Turner
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Landon Brooks
ALAC is apple lossless, not AAC, retard
Jose Morris
/thread
David Brown
The first one is lossless which is obviously better than the second one which is lossless too
William Barnes
AAC was not made by Apple and it's lossy format retard. It's just a little bit improved over mp3 version.
Leo Ward
Opus
Dylan Torres
Wav. No mastering engineer is going to bounce to either of those. Plus no dither
Connor Cook
AAC AAC!
William Bennett
>no dither
Daniel Morgan
a mp4 video file with song lyrics, chords, tune and descriptions of sound effects so you don't lose a single bit of detail, even without headphones or speakers
it doesn't get any lossless than this
Benjamin Roberts
FLAC is the best lossless audio codec in terms of compression and overhead.
I don't make the news. I just report it.
Aaron Phillips
>ACC
>lossless
Thomas Morales
Overhead comes from bit grid bro and compression isn't handled by file type unless you normalize or loss. Compression is handled by the engineers
Cooper Barnes
they have different purpose
>whats better, submarine or helicopter?
Jose Morris
>lossy
Wrong
Brayden Moore
This movie gave me nightmares as a kid.
Jackson Sullivan
Use OPUS. It's the best. You're too stupid to need a lossless codec like FLAC anyway.
James Perez
>this whole post
Easton Wood
>>ACC
It's called Opus not OPUS
Logan Foster
Henry Rogers
FLAC > ALAC in pretty much every way.
Jaxson Hughes
>>>ACC
Oops. Kek.
Caleb Ross
Ok mr mr
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As you can clearly see here, OpUs handily beats all the other shitty lossy formats. oPuS is also Open Source, and is ideal for low latency applications like streaming. oPUS is essentially the gold standard of lossy codecs, the only thing lacking is widespread adoption, but even that isn't a major issue as most DAPs, phone apps, and PC software will support oPUs.
Nicholas Powell
opus is baste
William Gomez
AAC = lossy
ALAC = apple
FLAC = open source lossless high compression with pretty much lowest quality loss out there in a format if we're keeping the ridiculous file sizes of WAV's out of comparison
Justin Phillips
why not .aif
Owen Clark
Haven't seen any argument against using ALAC other than "FLAC exists".
Michael Lewis
A bit difficult to come across and format conversion results in quality loss. But otherwise you have a pretty good point
William Ross
Wanting to stray away from supporting a shit company is enough for me
Brody Reed
ALAC doesn't include the audio checksum. It also performs worse in both compression efficiency and encoding/decoding speed.
Ian Diaz
ALAC is shit.
Just apple suffering from "not invented here" syndrome.
Isaiah Martinez
I want /mu/ to leave.
Grayson Turner
hardware support
>very good
Can non apple hardware/software play alac files?
Hunter Nguyen
aac isn't lossless, dipshit
Easton Reyes
ALAC is better because it has a shinier icon by default
Jayden Peterson
>Can non apple hardware/software play alac files?
>Unironically not owning a Mac
Wew lad.
Brandon Rogers
/thread
Eli Gray
nevermind. lots of software can play alac.
Jaxson Martin
>FLAC
>Free Lossless Audio Compresssion
>Free
>ALAC
>Apple Loessless Audio Compression
>Apple
I'll let you figure it out.
Easton Phillips
>unironically owning macshit
kill yourself subhuman
Mason James
OPTIMFROG SEEMS LIKE THE BEST TO ME
Ayden Fisher
>Unironically not owning a Mac
Yea. That's me.
Jeremiah Taylor
>Implying I'd give shekels to Apple.
Never said I bought their hardware user
>Autist detected
Eli Cook
>optimfrog
>speed slow/very slow
yey fren
Luke Roberts
>Autist detected
Go on. Tell me more about this.
Caleb Kelly
Andrew Miller
You know where you are right?
Luke Bailey
>You know where you are right?
Yes. I am aware.
Owen Miller
The fre:ac guy is working on a project called "Superfast Codecs" and the FLAC portion has been accepted upstream, which means when the next FLAC reference encoder is released it will be EVEN STRONGER
Colton Nguyen
Ryder Thompson
Please explain.
Isaac Scott
More software can play ALAC than FLAC.
Noah Taylor
>More software can play ALAC than FLAC.
Citation needed
Adrian Cooper
that's why I got a threadripper
Joseph Rogers
Liam Harris
Patents.
Jeremiah Fisher
fpbp
Caleb Foster
I think ALAC can store higher quality profile art or maybe not higher quality just scale nicer to all the apple shit.
other than that its pointless. ALAC is slightly less or more compressed but what it outputs is exactly the same.
Andrew Martin
Kek
Oliver Perez
Art in your audio files is bloat anyway. I usually remove that shit from my pirated FLACs. I once downloaded an album where every audio file was tagged with a 8 MB PNG cover art (which I made big gains compressing by itself.)
Mason Reyes
lmao
Colton Robinson
lol
Dominic Murphy
Out of those, FLAC is the only real option, or ALAC if you're a mac toddler. Every other format listed there is a toy codec.
Jace Parker
>implying any audio that is sampled at a speed less than the Planck frequency (2,952,117,292,928,633,500 YHz) could ever be TRULY lossless.
Hunter Hernandez
OP BTFO