Devil of Hells Kitchen Journal

[Shannon]

I'm pretty sure iPods do support FLAC and AIFF too. I don't use Apple products, though, so I'm only going on what I remember, which may be wrong.

iPods support AIFF but not FLAC. Instead of FLAC they support Apple's ALAC (still lossless) codec. Most players that play FLAC do indeed support ALAC, but since ALAC commonly uses the m4a extension that AAC also uses it's difficult to know by looking whether a given file is the lossless ALAC or the lossy AAC unless one has an audio file inspector.

FLAC was created before Apple open-sourced ALAC, and since both are lossless the only real difference is file size, which is only slightly better with ALAC than with FLAC.

That's right, it was ALAC, which of course is the Apple way. That's one of the reasons I don't like Apple. They don't play well with others.