[mythtv-users] Apple Lossless Audio Codec

Tom Flair lists at graniteskies.net
Sat Oct 29 16:37:33 UTC 2011


On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:15 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 08:16:35AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca>
> wrote:
> > > FYI:
> > >
> > >
> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2120792/apple-sources-lossless-audio-codec
> > >
> > >>The Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) was developed by Apple for its
> gadgets and now Apple has released it under the Apache licence. ALAC
> compresses the size of audio files with no loss of quality. So, for example,
> if the original file is 30MB, this could cut it down to 15MB, but still
> retain the sound quality.
> > >
> > > I know Myth already gets ALAC support from a library but I thought I'd
> pass this along.
> >
> > Interesting, but I would like to know how ALAC compares to FLAC...
>
> One of them is supported on Apple branded devices.
>
>
Install Rockbox and you can have FLAC support on your Apple device.  ;)
Not what you meant, but I had to throw that out there.
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