Comment Re:Pardon me for asking... (Score 2, Interesting) 294
So, I have to ask a question, having looked at your site.
Why bother with reverse engineering ALAC? So far, I have seen / read mention of only one major useful thing that has been learned: ALAC uses adaptive compression algorithms.
You state on your site that you don't like being locked into restrictive DRM formats. So, don't allow yourself to get locked into it. Don't support it.
Given the information you have gathered about the format, it seems to me that it would be far more productive to join the FLAC team, and work with them towards adding adaptive compression to FLAC.
IMO, it's through direct support of open projects such as OggVorbis and FLAC, and companies that are willing to implement these open products (such as iRiver) that we will end up with products that work the way we want them to.
Why bother with reverse engineering ALAC? So far, I have seen / read mention of only one major useful thing that has been learned: ALAC uses adaptive compression algorithms.
You state on your site that you don't like being locked into restrictive DRM formats. So, don't allow yourself to get locked into it. Don't support it.
Given the information you have gathered about the format, it seems to me that it would be far more productive to join the FLAC team, and work with them towards adding adaptive compression to FLAC.
IMO, it's through direct support of open projects such as OggVorbis and FLAC, and companies that are willing to implement these open products (such as iRiver) that we will end up with products that work the way we want them to.
