Arnold Kim reports for MacRumors, “On MacOSForge, Apple has announced that they are releasing the Apple Lossless Audio Codec as an open source project: The Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) is a lossless audio codec developed by Apple and deployed on all of its platforms and devices for some years now. Apple is making the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) available as an open source project. Full details can be found on the Apple Lossless Audio Codec project page.
“The Apple Lossless Audio Codec is a similar to other ‘lossless’ codecs such as FLAC which offer audio compression without any loss in audio information,” Kim reports. “The project has been released under the Apache license.”
More info in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” and “Arline M.” for the heads up.]