[mythtv-users] Apple Lossless Audio Codec

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 29 22:31:02 UTC 2011


On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Tom Flair <lists at graniteskies.net> wrote:
> 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.

I did that to my iPod 4, but for ogg support, not FLAC. Now the wife
and I have an android phones so we're back to being an Apple free
household :)

Richard


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