[vorbis] Why FLAC, why not MAC?

Oscar Sundbom oscar.sundbom at swipnet.se
Fri Aug 29 05:28:06 PDT 2003



On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:08:18 -0700 (PDT)
Josh Coalson <j_coalson at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- Nescafe <nescafe at fr.fm> wrote:
> > Yeah, and you wouldn't either use "their"
> > way-better-lossless-audio-codec.
> > Vorbis owns both MP3 and WMA, but it seems that MAC owns FLAC.
> 
> Please explain why "MAC owns FLAC", using facts.  I'm always
> looking for ways to improve FLAC.

I'm guessing he'äs refering to MAC producing slightly smaller files according to both users and tests.
I'd say itä's a small price to pay for FLAC to be able to uncompress as fast as it does, as well as all the other
pros. Though improvement is never wrong. :)
 
> Josh

Oscar
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