[DC LoCo] /. News: Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source

Eric Maag eric.maag at gmail.com
Tue Nov 8 02:54:17 UTC 2011


Here's a thorough primer I came across that answers some of the
questions that were raised in the thread.


http://xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Kevin Cole <dc.loco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 16:31, Matthew Gallagher <mattva01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Red Book, FLAC , ALAC and WAV are all bit identical once uncompressed when
>> recorded from the same Red Book CD source. but FLAC and ALAC tend be smaller
>> then the others.
>
> And now, why do these codecs make me think of a duck? ;-)
>
> And with that, he "ducks". ;-)
>
> Too much television...
>



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