FLAC Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple's ALAC codec is now open source

by Chris Rawson (Oct 27th, 2011)

Apple Lossless, also known as ALAC, is a lossless audio codec Apple developed some time ago for digital music. The codec compresses music files anywhere from 40-60 percent of their original size with no discernible loss in audio quality or fidelity. "A decoded ALAC stream is bit-for-bit identical ...

Play FLAC in iTunes with less mess

by Christina Warren (Aug 13th, 2008)

Since switching to the Mac full-time last year, my only remaining complaint has been the abysmal (and finicky) FLAC support in iTunes. FLAC, or Free Lossless Audio Codec, is an open source lossless compression format that offers a nice compromise betweeen storing the uncompressed music file -- which ...

Firefly: Streaming to iTunes with DAAP

by Erica Sadun (Apr 26th, 2007)

Make blog recently posted about how to run an iTunes DAAP server in Linux with Firefly. Firefly (né mt-daapd) provides an open-source digital audio server that supports iTunes-compatible streaming. With it, you can stream your media from a Linux platform to any other computer that's running ...

XLD: lossless audio decoder

by Mat Lu (Apr 15th, 2007)

One big complaint of audiophiles on the Mac platform is the limited support for FLAC, the very high quality, open source lossless audio codec. Apple, of course, prefers its own (proprietary) Apple Lossless format. The X Lossless Decoder offers some help for Mac users, however. Unlike many FLAC tools ...