On 28 October 2011 19:24, Victor Vasiliev <vasilvv(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Brion Vibber
<brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> I think that puts FLAC and Apple Lossless in
pretty much the same boat: we
> probably ought to allow upload in those formats as nice lossless source
> material, but it'd be nice if we can consistently automatically transcode
> them to something that plays consistently in browsers at suitable
> live-download bitrates. (Ogg Vorbis and, in a world with slightly less
> patent madness, MP3.)
Not really, since in case of ALAC we would have to
actually parse
MPEG-4 container format to ensure this is ALAC and not some other
patented MPEG-4 audio.
I recall vague plans to allow upload and automatic conversion of
encumbered formats ... most such conversions would be lossy, which is
problematic, but converting encumbered lossless audio formats to FLAC
would be, of course, lossless. What was the barrier to upload
autoconversion? Did it turn out to be unfeasible?
- d.