![]() ![]() But iTunes still won’t import it despite being able to handle ALAC, AAC, MP3 and WAV. One thing about Apple…in Apple’s High Sierra and the upcoming Mojave macos versions, both know what a FLAC file is and even play it in the Finder. While technically multichannel ALAC is possible, I’ve never seen it implemented or any content made available so that’s moot. FLAC can also handle multichannel recordings (like DSD). If you didn’t ever use iTunes, then it’s more likely you’re doing FLAC, WAV and/or AIFF for your high resolution content. This is the case for me between Plex and my Oppo 205. If you serve music through a DLNA server like Plex, sometimes the endpoint won’t recognize the ALAC file in question due to DLNA’s eccentricities. ![]() But ALAC files can be problematic in some circumstances. And iTunes can import and play high resolution ALAC content from places like HDTracks. Many of us began and continue to use iTunes for a primary music organization system well before we got into Roon. Whether ALAC or FLAC is right for your primary music storage vehicle depends on your needs. Some of that confirmation bias is about Apple, but strangely, the same people with said bias often have none for AIFF as a format, which Apple created back in the late 80s as the first (uncompressed) PCM file format (Microsoft’s WAV came a little later). So saying that one sounds different than the other is just confirmation bias. Both decompress losslessly to the identical PCM data. ALAC and FLAC are just envelopes for the actual data. ![]()
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