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Topic: [DUPLICATE TOPIC] ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) now Open Source (Read 2749 times) previous topic - next topic
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[DUPLICATE TOPIC] ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) now Open Source

Apple today announced that they are open sourcing their ALAC lossless codec:

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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.

The Apple Lossless Audio Codec sources are available under the Apache license.

More details can be found on the ALAC project page.