# The audio/alac_decoder port

## alac_decoder-0.2.0 – basic Apple Lossless Audio Codec decoder

## Description

    alac_decoder is a basic decoder for Apple Lossless Audio Codec files
    (ALAC). It is a C implementation of a decoder, written from reverse
    engineering the file format. ALAC uses an adaptive FIR prediction
    algorithm and stores the error values using a modified rice or golumb
    algorithm.

    The program located here will not be able to handle all ALAC files, it
    can only handle mono or stereo files. ALAC allows up to 8 channels. The
    ALAC decoder supports both 16 and 24 bit sample sizes.

    The decoder can read an ALAC stream from either a file or from stdin,
    and write it as raw PCM data or as a WAV file to either stdout or a
    file.

    An encoder is not provided.

WWW: http://crazney.net/programs/itunes/alac.html

Categories:
  audio

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