Apple Lossless Audio Codec
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The Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), also known as Apple Lossless, or Apple Lossless Encoder (ALE), is an audio coding format, and its reference audio codec implementation, developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music. After initially keeping it proprietary from its inception in 2004, in late 2011 Apple made the codec available open source and royalty-free. Traditionally, Apple has referred to the codec as Apple Lossless, though more recently it has begun to use the abbreviated term ALAC when referring to the codec.[1][2]
Quick Facts Developer(s), Initial release ...
Developer(s) | Apple Inc. |
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Initial release | April 28, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-04-28) |
Stable release | October 28, 2011; 12 years ago (2011-10-28)
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Type | Audio codec |
License | Apache License 2.0 |
Website | alac |
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Quick Facts Filename extension, Developed by ...
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Developed by | Apple Inc. |
Type of format | Lossless audio |
Contained by | MPEG-4 Part 14 |
Open format? | Yes |
Free format? | Yes |
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