• The Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC, /əˈlæk/), also known as Apple Lossless, or Apple Lossless Encoder (ALE), is an audio coding format, and its reference...
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    methods such as Advanced Audio Coding, MP3, Vorbis, and Opus. Similar to other lossless audio codecs, files encoded to Monkey's Audio are typically reduced...
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  • popular Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) libFLAC FFmpeg Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Apple QuickTime libalac FFmpeg Apple Music Monkey's Audio (APE) Monkey's...
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  • multichannel and high-resolution audio. A lossless codec, WMA Lossless, compresses audio data without loss of audio fidelity (the regular WMA format is...
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  • Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC) Apple Lossless (ALAC – Apple Lossless Audio Codec) Audio Lossless Coding (also known as MPEG-4 ALS) Direct Stream...
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  • variety of audio coding formats. For listening tests comparing the perceived audio quality of audio formats and codecs, see the article Codec listening...
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  • codecs—that is, open-source software implementations of audio or video coding formats, audio codecs and video codecs respectively. Many of the codecs...
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    the audio coding format, the container containing the raw audio data, and an audio codec. A codec performs the encoding and decoding of the raw audio data...
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    real-time applications) Apple Lossless (ALAC – Apple Lossless Audio Codec) Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC) Audio Lossless Coding (also known as...
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  • limited to: Apple Lossless (ALAC) FLAC WAV RIFF, the little-endian format corresponding to IFF OSType FourCC Apple Computer, Inc. (1989-01-04), Audio Interchange...
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    TS 26.401 V6.0.0 (2004-09), General Audio Codec audio processing functions; Enhanced aacPlus General Audio Codec; General Description (Release 6)" (DOC)...
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  • Features in Safari 15". "Apple Developer Documentation". developer.apple.com. "FLAC codec support for <audio> and WebAudio". Chrome Platform Status....
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    of the codec from 12 to 300 kbit/s. MPEG-4 Scalable To Lossless (SLS), Not yet published, can supplement an AAC stream to provide a lossless decoding...
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  • RealNetworks Products - Codecs Archived 2004-08-04 at the Wayback Machine Huffyuv v2.1.1, Retrieved on 2009-08-09 Lagarith Lossless Video Codec, Retrieved on 2018-02-10...
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    MP3 (redirect from MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3)
    Lossless formats include FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), Apple Lossless and many others. MP3 Surround Windows Media Audio (WMA) Comparison of audio...
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  • particularly for surround-sound audio compressed with the Apple Lossless (ALAC) codec. It is also what is used to send Audio Messages over iMessage on iOS...
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  • includes support for the following audio formats: Advanced Audio Coding (.aac) Apple Lossless Audio Codec (.alac) Audio Interchange File Format (.aif/.aifc/...
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    (HDMI CEC) protocol. On the Apple TV (2nd generation), digital output audio is up-sampled to 48 kHz, including lossless CD rips at 44.1 kHz. Although...
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  • A video codec is software or hardware that compresses and decompresses digital video. In the context of video compression, codec is a portmanteau of encoder...
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  • used with Apple devices, similar to MP3 but potentially offering higher quality at the same bitrate. FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec): A lossless compression...
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  • An audio format is a medium for sound recording and reproduction. The term is applied to both the physical recording media and the recording formats of...
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  • needed] Apple has created its own lossless audio compression technology, known as Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC). Alongside AAC, the entire Apple Music...
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    FFmpeg (redirect from Snow (codec))
    corresponding codecs and one container format have been created within the FFmpeg project so far. The two video codecs are the lossless FFV1, and the lossless and...
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    code; the program is an integration of many third-party audio and video libraries, both codecs (such as FFmpeg, x264, and x265) and other components such...
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  • Theora (redirect from Theora codec)
    and open media projects, including the Vorbis audio format and the Ogg container. The libtheora video codec is the reference implementation of the Theora...
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    MP4 file format (redirect from Audio/mp4)
    Language (SAOL) Other compression formats are less used: Apple Lossless, Free Lossless Audio Codec (added in late 2018), and Opus (added in late 2018) Subtitles:...
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    multimedia data (audio, video, and images), especially in applications such as streaming media and internet telephony. By contrast, lossless compression is...
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    compatible with open-source formats like Ogg Vorbis and the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC). Audio files purchased from online stores may include digital rights...
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    AirPlay (redirect from Airplay (Apple))
    UDP for streaming audio and is based on the Real Time Streaming Protocol. The streams are transcoded using the Apple Lossless codec with 44100 Hz and...
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  • MPEG-4 Part 3 (redirect from MPEG-4 Audio)
    speech coding (HVXC, CELP), general audio coding (AAC, TwinVQ, BSAC), lossless audio compression (MPEG-4 SLS, Audio Lossless Coding, MPEG-4 DST), a Text-To-Speech...
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