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

[Eric Maag]

Is this even really relevant to codecs these days, I thought mp3 was
the end all be all for compressed audio, someone pls enlighten me. Or
this more a nod toward the iOS opening? Seems like the stance is since
no one's really using it might as well open it up...

Eric

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Kevin Cole <dc.loco at gmail.com> wrote:
> URL: http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/28/0115247/apples-lossless-audio-codec-alac-now-open-source
>
> Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source
> Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 27, @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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