ALAC - Apple Lossless Audio Codec
Apple Lossless (also known as Apple Lossless Encoder,
ALE, or Apple Lossless Audio Codec, 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. It is not a variant of AAC, but uses linear prediction similar to other
lossless codecs such as FLAC and Shorten. iPod players with a dock connector (not
the Shuffle) and recent firmware can play Apple Lossless-encoded files. It does
not utilize any digital rights management (DRM) scheme, but by the nature of the
container, it is thought that DRM can be applied to ALAC much the same way it
can with other files in QuickTime containers.
Convert to ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec)
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