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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?"

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  1. open source, patent encumbered by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    from ALACEncoder.cpp:256


    NOTES
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    The relevance of the ALAC coefficients is explained in detail
    in patent documents.

    yet another dick-move-in-sheeps-clothing by apple.

    1. Re:open source, patent encumbered by schnikies79 · · Score: 0, Troll

      Who cares? Have to be or want to be. The result is the same.

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  2. Re:Why not... by nashv · · Score: 1, Troll

    You are locked to their eco-system. iTunes, Propreitory docks and cables, etc. Note that the spirit of the OP's comment applies to iPod Touch and iPhone too.

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