[linux-audio-user] Apple Lossless codec

Lee Azzarello lee at fallingforward.net
Mon May 17 20:54:43 EDT 2004


Perhaps you should ask Apple to include non-patented formats in their 
products. You probably won't find the Linux community interested in 
supporting a new and potentially closed format that already has an open 
source replacement.

BTW, your iPod may look cool but there are other devices like the 
iRiver HP-120 that play far more formats than an iPod and don't put any 
restrictions on how you use your own music.

-lee

On May 11, 2004, at 5:18 PM, Florin Andrei wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 13:42, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>> On 11 May 2004 10:13:45 -0700
>> Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone has any kind of information about the Apple Lossless codec?
>>> Any chance to get a Linux implementation?
>>
>> There is alrady an implementation. Its called FLAC:
>>     http://flac.sf.net/
>> :-)
>
> Yeah, right, have you tried to play FLAC files on an iPod? ;-)
> I was asking seriously.
>
> -- 
> Florin Andrei
>
> http://florin.myip.org/
>




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