I used iTunes to rip/encode a CD in Apple's new lossless codec,
and MC10 played it just fine (though i only played it for a minute, i'd
already ripped that CD and was just testing i), unlike some others i
tried (winamp, real,helium2,musicmatch, etc). I do have itunes and the new quicktime installed so i don't know if perhaps those are used.
The frustrating part is that although you can look at the tag info, the "playing now" visualizers
won't show the info since they only work for "supported formats".
Perhaps thats something they could fix soon to attract customers
while they are ahead of the competition, and hopefully give us some idea if they plan to do so to avoid considering switching to the inferior in other ways iTunes.... Though also of course encoding to that format would be useful it possible. I'd guess before that at very least allow conversion *from* that format would be useful, since it decodes it obviously it could be fed into other encoders.
I wonder other portable players will support this codec in the future. Perhaps JRiver could let us know what the odds are MC may add an encoder for it. Though actually iTunes uses gracenote CDDB
it gets info on classical CDs like composers so I may be stuck ripping
with iTunes anyway (actually thats my only reason to consider apple lossless rather than ape, since I can't find anywhere
a program that encodes, or tags, ape files using CDDB).