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Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source

Posted by samzenpus on from the free-music dept.

Revotron writes "Apple has released the full source to their Apple Lossless Audio Codec under the Apache license. ALAC was developed by Apple and deployed on all of its platforms and devices over the last 10 years. Could the release of the ALAC source code mark a possible first step in opening up more of the iOS platform?"

3 of 526 comments (clear)

  1. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I have no idea

  2. Re:Why not... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because FLAC is for cyber-communists.

  3. Re:Why not... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Because FLAC is for crypto-fascists.

    Fixed that for you.