So right now, I stumbled throughout a nifty" little trick to convert ALAC directly to FLAC using Foobar2000. I assume it is secure to say that for Apple customers ALAC (file extension is m4a) is most definitely the best format for archivin…

No, I always convert my audio to AIFF or WAV first. On the other hand, whereas other obtain websites provide FLAC as default (and in some circumstances, only FLAC is obtainable), HDtracks allows you to select between FLAC, WAV, AIFF and AL…