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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?"

2 of 526 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why not... by Tr3vin · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you use and iPod, FLAC isn't going to play.

  2. Re:Why not... by BasilBrush · · Score: 5, Informative

    It seems like FLAC has a slight compression edge

    Not according to this table.
    http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Lossless_comparison

    Note for the compression ratio, smaller percentage is better. ALAC is slightly better than FLAC. But it's so marginal it makes no difference.