Jonathan Gray writes: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 02:04:04AM -0700, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 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. > > > > Works well on i386/amd64. > > > > ok? > > This is the original reverse engineered decoder that the alac > code in ffmpeg is based on. Is there any reason to prefer this > over the code in ffmpeg or the code apple recently released > (http://alac.macosforge.org/) ?
I've been using shntool to convert alac files with cuesheets to individual flac files. It uses alac_decoder at runtime to do this. -- Anthony J. Bentley
