- AccurateRip
- Acoustid
- AES/EBU
- AirPlay
- Amplifier
- aptX
- Audio file formats
- ASRC
- AVB
- Bit perfect jitter
- Bits: 16 or 24
- Bit perfect playback
- Bitrate
- Bluetooth
- Burn-in
- BWF
- Cables
- CDtext
- Chromecast
- Clipping
- Clock
- Codec
- Compression
- CRC
- Crossover
- Cue sheet
- DAC
- Damping
- DASH
- Digital
- Digital Room Correction
- Dither
- DLNA
- Drivers
- DoP
- DSP
- EBU R128 (loudness)
- FFT
- FireWire
- Freedb
- Gapless playback
- Generation loss
- HDMI
- Headphone listening
- Hearing
- Hires recording
- Homeplug
- I2S
- ID3
- Inter sample peak
- LDAC
- Linearity (DAC)
- Memory playback
- Music Server
- OCF
- OFC
- PCM
- Perception
- RAID
- ReplayGain
- Ripping
- RFI
- RIAA
- Router
- Sampling, up and over
- Sample Rate Conversion
- Speakers
- S/PDIF
- Storage
- Sync
- Tagging
- Toslink
- Transcoding
- UAA
- Units
- UPnP
- USB
- VST
- WiFi
- WiSA
ALAC
The Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple and supported on iPhone, iPad, most iPods, Mac and iTunes.
It uses linear prediction similar to other lossless codecs such as FLAC to obtain lossless compression.
In 2011 Apple open sourced ALAC.
References
- Apple Lossless Audio Codec - MacOS forge
© Vincent Kars October 2012