ALAC

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Revision as of 11:52, 17 January 2013

File Format
Name ALAC
Ontology
Extension(s) .m4a
Released 2004-04-28

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Description

Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) was developed by Apple to deliver lossless audio compression, with the data being stored in an MP4 container. The format was open-sourced by Apple in 2011.

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ALAC-encoded files are playable using Apple's iTunes media player. Applications using the open-source libavcodec can also playback and otherwise manipulate ALAC-encoded files. For a list of such applications, see here.

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