The answer to this is simple. It has nothing to do with what is proprietry, what is open source etc. Pick APE, Wavpack, Flac, ALAC, Optifrog, whatever as long as it is lossless.
Why?
Simple. Say you pick Wavpack (which rocks) and then find that you are going to switch to another OS that may not support it. You simply reencode it to Flac. You later find that Wavpack suddenly gets portable support. You simply reencode back into Wavpack.
All at no loss as they are lossless. And without having to rerip from CDs.
Besides, it's good to exercise your CPU from time to time anyway!
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The answer to this is simple. It has nothing to do with what is proprietry, what is open source etc. Pick APE, Wavpack, Flac, ALAC, Optifrog, whatever as long as it is lossless. Why? Simple. Say you pick Wavpack (which rocks) and then find that you are going to switch to another OS that may not support it. You simply reencode it to Flac. You later find that Wavpack suddenly gets portable support. You simply reencode back into Wavpack. All at no loss as they are lossless. And without having to rerip from CDs. Besides, it's good to exercise your CPU from time to time anyway!