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Yup, I'm all for that. Others are not. -----Original Message----- From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom Fine Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 8:32 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Is it time to rethink FLAC ? Hi Carl: I agree with your main point, but I think MP3 has been reverse engineered by the LAME team, so at least some of it is effectively open-source now. -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Pultz" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 8:22 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Is it time to rethink FLAC ? > The thing about FLAC versus some other formats is that it is 'open-source.' What's under its hood > isn't a secret, unlike the Apple and Windows formats or MP3, so baring some Great Simplification, > a future culture that can deal with digital media will (hopefully) have all the info they need to > reconstruct the data. That's not an argument for using it, but it does make the decision > practical. Someday, Microsoft and Apple will be dust, and who knows what will control their ip? > > Another subtlety to this subject is that all of these file formats are alternate ways of > describing the same thing. With lossless formats, it isn’t really correct to think in terms of a > generation. A FLAC version of a WAV file is the same information, expressed in a different way. > >