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We've compiled a list of 7 free and paid alternatives to Apple Lossless. The primary competitors include FLAC, LAME. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Apple Lossless and Vorbis, Matroska, Opus Interactive Audio Codec. Also you can look at other similar options here: Audio and Music Software.
We've compiled a list of 7 free and paid alternatives to Apple Lossless. The primary competitors include FLAC, LAME. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Apple Lossless and Vorbis, Matroska, Opus Interactive Audio Codec. Also you can look at other similar options here: Audio and Music Software.
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FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning...
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LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL.
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Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality...
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The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can...
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Opus is a totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec.
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»TAK – [T]om’s lossless [a]udio [k]ompressor / [T]oms verlustfreier [A]udio[k]ompressor – is...
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Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc.
Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc.
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Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music.
Apple Lossless data is stored within an MP4 container with the filename extension .m4a – this extension is also used by Apple for AAC audio data in an MP4 container (same container, different audio encoding). However, Apple Lossless is not a variant of AAC (which is a lossy format), but rather a distinct lossless format that uses linear prediction similar to other lossless codecs such as FLAC and Shorten.
All current iPods and iPhones can play Apple Lossless-encoded files. It does not use any digital rights management (DRM) scheme by default.
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