ALAC — href="http://alac.macosforge.org/">the Apple Lossless Audio Codec — is Apple’s own brand of lossless audio compression, and they’ve href="http://www.tuaw.com/2011/10/27/apples-alac-codec-is-now-open-source/">released its source code free and into the wild. Released under an Apache license, the codec will shrink an audio file down to almost half its original size without losing any audio quality at all.
ALAC is the only lossless format supported by iTunes, so all those enormous FLAC files you know and love to rip from high quality recordings won’t work on your iPod. Hopefully by ALAC going open source, more organizations will be able to offer files in that format, so you can listen to them without need for further editing.
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