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

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?"

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Re:Useful for Airplay

[syousef]

Sadly I'm sure most people here will go on and on about how it's not FLAC, and whatever. For once, just at least appreciate that Apple is continuing to throw some interesting things out to the OSS crowd instead of deciding to nitpick it to death. If you don't want to use it, thats fine. Just really tired of the nitpickery and general negative outlook geeks around here tend to have. Cheer up for once :-)

The reason geeks have a "general negative outlook" towards Apple is that they have been bitten by artificial restrictions imposed on their devices by Apple, or have overpaid for what they later realised were technically inferior products. Geeks don't tend to just get negative for no reason whatsoever. Do not make the mistake of thinking Apple has done this for the common good. They have their reasons and their reasons ultimately have to do with their profits.