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Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default.

2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Yep. Lack of format support is usually to blame on the one who doesn’t support the format. You can absolutely blame Apple for this too though, their apps can’t open e.g. Matroska video or FLAC.

And perplexingly, they don’t support uploading HEIC, their own image format of choice, on the web iCloud Photos. So there’s that too.

(At this point my music library is stored as ALAC because it’s well supported in both Linux and Apple’s OSes. Really wish it wouldn’t have to be that way though. Someone needs to tell them about ffmpeg.)

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WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Apple made ALAC as an alternative to FLAC due to the dubious licensing around FLAC at the time.

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- 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Interesting. I can’t find anything about the FLAC licensing issues. Do you have a link?
  
  (Also, correction — Wikipedia says macOS in general can play FLAC. I guess it’s just the Music app that can’t import them.)
  
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  - WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’m really not sure where I originally read it. I did some digging and I found some discussion about FLAC and patent trolls on a few forums, including the Talk page of the Wikipedia article, but I haven’t found anything concrete.
    
    It might be that the patent troll thing was just a rumor!
    
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    2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Ah, alright. Thanks for looking!
    
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desentizised@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I wouldn’t even know how to hold a local music library on macOS these days. The app that used to be iTunes is now just called Music right? It’s way confusing for me but I also don’t daily drive the OS anymore. I have my stagnant library in Subsonic which in itself is a stagnant product but you know how it is with Spotify these days.

I didn’t know MOV has a more accessible license than MP4 but yea MP4 in itself is hardly what one ever wanted to hold their content in. All I know about MOV is that back in the XP days obviously Windows couldn’t play them out of the box. Not that WMV (lol) was any more desirable. I guess most of my stuff back then was AVI.

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- 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  I wouldn’t even know how to hold a local music library on macOS these days. The app that used to be iTunes is now just called Music right?
  
  Yeah. I have a local library consisting of some albums I bought, some which aren’t on streaming services, and some other stuff such as game soundtracks + also use Apple Music streaming. They complement each other really well.
  
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  - desentizised@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Do Apple still sell Music in that app?
    
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    2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    They do actually, the iTunes store still exists. I haven’t used it though since while it’s DRM free at this point, it’s not lossless.
    
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