encontré este comentario en un foro por ahí - y una respuesta.
no me parece que ninguno ignore Fluke, pero voy a cruzar la información a ver que pasa-
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Hi folks.
Alright I know some of the benefits of FLAC over ALAC - free, open-source, widely-used among audiophiles and lossless traders, etc. I've also noticed that most FLACs tend to be about 3-4% smaller than ALACs, although this is debatable since FLACs can have different compression rates.
BUT I'm a Mac user, most of my audiojunkie pals are too. And iTunes, limitations and all, is the standard for playback and management on most every Mac user's computer... and more and more PC users too. iTunes can play FLACs, but barely - unstable at best - and tags are usually lost if you don't use xAct or Max (I use Max for most every conversion nowadays)... and sometimes even if you do.
And though EAC had promised to port to Mac and Linux several years ago, they now say they have no plans to actually do it anymore.
Here's what I'm getting at:
I have lots of ALAC albums, several hundred actually. Some converted from FLAC, others ripped from disc. I want to hear opinions from other Mac users about what format they use and why, how they manage and play their audio libraries, and what, if anything, they use to manage, generate and utilize checksum logs, cue sheets, etc.
~ Pedro.
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I'm a Mac user & used to upload AAC ripped in iTunes until I was persuaded of the benefits of Lossless, so I started uploading Apple Lossless which caused me to be bombarded with endless queries about whether ALAC was really lossless & how to convert them to something that didn't need to played in iTunes.
I persisted with ALAC (just to annoy the zealots 
until the last Demonoid crash. Then I started to upload to other sites using Pando & Rapidshare so I changed to Flac ripped with xACT. xACT produces a log file, can make fingerprint & md5s.
Not aware of any Mac program that produces usable cue files.
In my opinion the log files are a rough guide only, I've had them say everything ripped ok but the files don't play back properly.
I like the way iTunes organises things, but as I upload flac & most downloads are flac or ape I rarely use it now except for loading my iPod. I usually burn files to CDs if I like them & listen to them through my stereo.
I use Cog for listening to music files on my macs & XLD to convert them.
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