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Taper Chris:
I upload in flac to LMA from my PC. Is there any way to have it available as alac or aiff or whatever the Apple equivalent is? Or upload as WAV? TIA, and apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.

morst:
I'm sure this has been covered elsewhere but FLAC is great.

The F in flac stands for FREE just like the A in ALAC stands for Apple.

As an apple victim user, it's handy for me to have Apple's lossless files for my itunes/iphone, but for the rest of the world, and continued availability, FLAC is king.

WAV and AIFF are larger file size for no extra info, in fact, they don't really support the meta-data tags that FLAC and ALAC do...

Carry on with your FLAC self, and TAG THOSE PUPPIES!

vanark:
In general, the Internet Archive is going to hesitate to implement a platform dependent format. Unfortunately, I'm not even going to request it.

Here is a list of derivatives created for each file type.
https://archive.org/help/derivatives.php

voltronic:
I use FLAC whenever possible also.  But if I need to make ALAC files for whatever reason, I use Foobar 2000 with the appropriate ALAC encoder.  I have various encoders as Foobar components I've accumulated over time, but it seems they've now been collected in an =http://www.foobar2000.org/encoderpackencoder pack.

ALAC seems counter to the ethos of the LMA in my opinion, but if you or your friends have Apple hardware that you want lossless files for, it's what you need to do.

smokenburn:

--- Quote from: Taper Chris on February 01, 2017, 02:32:55 PM ---I upload in flac to LMA from my PC. Is there any way to have it available as alac or aiff or whatever the Apple equivalent is? Or upload as WAV? TIA, and apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.

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Yes.  Upload ALAC files to LMA and ALAC files (and derivatives; mp3 etc.) will be displayed.

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