Hi Leonard, > Doesn't fdk-aac also have the > ability to decode aac files?
Yes, see https://github.com/mstorsjo/fdk-aac/blob/master/documentation/aacDecoder.pdf The problem with ALAC files is that they are not AAC files at all, they use a completely different encoding method - and yet they use the same file extension and mimetype as regular AAC. That may be fine if you only ever use iTunes, but it's pretty poor for interoperability. > Also, there seems to be an open source alac decoder which could be added > as an external one to Liquidsoap: > http://alac.macosforge.org/post/welcome-to-the-apple-lossless-audio-codec-project/ According to http://alac.macosforge.org/trac/browser/trunk/codec/APPLE_LICENSE.txt it is under a GPL incompatible license. I will ask the project about that, because elsewhere the website states the code is under the Apache 2.0 license. Personally I'm not worried if we can't support this obscure codec; in my opinion, people should convert their files to FLAC. I'm only in search of a definitive answer :-) Cheers! Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Savonet-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/savonet-users
