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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 not... by Lanteran · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...just use FLAC?

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  2. Re:Useful for Airplay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Geeks don't tend to just get negative for no reason whatsoever.

    LOL thanks I needed that laugh. Please do go on believing your opinions are objectively better, though. It's lovely to see that level of arrogance justified.

  3. Re:Useful for Airplay by schnikies79 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Geeks are biggest fanboys on the planet. They get mad and everything, reason or not.

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