Jeff Moore
I concur. I've been hesitating to post too voluminously about audio on a thread initially about the magic of the continued usefulness of old HTML pages, but since a few people have been welcoming my side-journey to audio format longevity...
Yes, I concur with @thomasfuchs about the usefulness of FLAC. It's unsurprisingly the format I've standardized on for PCM audio–offers a useful amount of compression while being lossless, includes good tagging support.
Jeff Moore
I'll forever resent and avoid using Apple Lossless (AKA ALAC), because it was transparently invented by Apple to mimic the functionality of the already-existing FLAC so that Apple-bundled software could store music in a technically comparable format yet not support the emerging losslessly-compressed PCM standard used by absolutely everyone but Apple, FLAC.
This was obviously done to make it painful for users habituated to using Apple's music software to buy music elsewhere.
Jeff Moore
AIFF has been around in its current form since 1989...
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