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Apple Lossless Audio Codec — now under the Apache license Oct 28th 2011, 04:57 Friday, Oct 28, 2011 by Rene Ritchie | No Comments Apple has released their lossless audio codec under the Apache license. The Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple and supported on iPhone, iPad, most iPods, Mac and iTunes. ALAC is a data compression method which reduces the size of audio files with no loss of information. A decoded ALAC stream is bit-for-bit identical to the original uncompressed audio file. The Apple Lossless Audio Codec project contains the sources for the ALAC encoder and decoder. Also included is an example command line utility, called alacconvert, to read and write audio data to/from Core Audio Format (CAF) and WAVE files. A description of a 'magic cookie' for use with files based on the ISO base media file format (e.g. MP4 and M4A) is included as well. Any golden eared FOSS-advocates out their going to switch from FLAC? Source: http://alac.macosforge.org/ Tagged: alac, apple lossless audio codec, audio, codecs, Music

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