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by andfarm 5341 days ago
It plays on iPods and other iOS devices. Other than that, not much -- FLAC's compression ratio is a bit better on average, and more non-Apple devices support it.

The release of this code isn't really all that exciting, as there's already a free reverse-engineered implementation in libav. (It might not support all the modes described in this source release, though.)

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he means ffmpeg
ffmpeg renamed themselves to libav
No they didn't. FFmpeg still exists. It is still active with plenty of contributions.
What does that show? The people who forked it decided to change the name of their fork.