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Kudos to Apple for at least adopting an MPEG standard and not inventing yet another pointless music format.

Kudos which they then rather lost by promulgating that absurd proprietary Apple Lossless not-quite-FLAC thing instead of proper FLAC.

IMO, and this is just my opinion, there's no point in lossy formats other than MP3. I agree that WMA, ACC and Vorbis are more advanced, but the advantages that gives (half the file-size for the same quality is the usual handwave, but they're not quite that good in practice) just aren't worth bothering with. There isn't really room for a "third way" alongside MP3 and FLAC.

Peter