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

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Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 27, 2011 @10:20PM 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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by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 27, 2011 @10:21PM (#37864028)

I have no idea

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by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 27, 2011 @10:25PM (#37864058)

Because FLAC is for cyber-communists.

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by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 27, 2011 @10:44PM (#37864214)

Because FLAC is for crypto-fascists.
Fixed that for you.

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