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#251167 - 05/03/2005 21:59 ALAC Codec support!
mlord carpal tunnel Registered: 29/08/2000 Posts: 14478 Loc: Canada	Okay, time for somebody here to integrate Apple iTunes codec support into our players! This can be done as an internal Hijack filter: reading the Apple format from a FID and feeding it to the player software as if it were a .WAV. Volunteers?
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#251168 - 06/03/2005 00:42 Re: ALAC Codec support! [Re: mlord]
loren carpal tunnel Registered: 23/08/2000 Posts: 3826 Loc: SLC, UT, USA	The ALAC decoder works. I just ran in on some files and made WAVS. Sweet. Now if I only had a clue how to program something like that. All the time and none of the knowledge =] _________________________ \|\| loren \|\|
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#251169 - 06/03/2005 00:57 Re: ALAC Codec support! [Re: mlord]
matthew_k pooh-bah Registered: 12/02/2002 Posts: 2298 Loc: Berkeley, California	Well, I would say implementing flac or ogg in 2.0 would be more of a priority. It's easy enough to convert ALAC to flac losslessly, so there really isn't any point. The big feature would be aac with fairplay drm, but that's a rather large can or worms to open. Matthew
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#251170 - 07/03/2005 20:15 Re: ALAC Codec support! [Re: matthew_k]
mcomb pooh-bah Registered: 31/08/1999 Posts: 1649 Loc: San Carlos, CA	Quote: The big feature would be aac with fairplay drm, but that's a rather large can or worms to open. Actually, aac without fairplay would be pretty useful as well since there are existing tools that can strip fairplay. I'd agree that ALAC isn't very useful as it isn't used by much and can be losslesly transcoded. Although being able to convert to ALAC and stream to an Airport Express would be kind of fun if the empeg is fast enough. -Mike _________________________ EmpMenuX - ext3 filesystem - Empeg iTunes integration
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#251171 - 09/03/2005 19:51 Re: ALAC Codec support! [Re: mcomb]
hybrid8 carpal tunnel Registered: 12/11/2001 Posts: 7738 Loc: Toronto, CANADA	Do any of the solutions simply strip the DRM or do they in fact transcode the AAC while by-passing the DRM? If they transcode, then you can just output into an MP3 (or OGG) instead of another AAC and be done with it. Bruno _________________________ Bruno Twisted Melon : Fine Mac OS Software
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#251172 - 09/03/2005 20:07 Re: ALAC Codec support! [Re: hybrid8]
tman carpal tunnel Registered: 24/12/2001 Posts: 5528	They strip the DRM and you end up with an unencrypted AAC file so you can just transcode after that. Some of the tools have the transcoding step built in.
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#251173 - 10/03/2005 16:46 Re: ALAC Codec support! [Re: tman]
mcomb pooh-bah Registered: 31/08/1999 Posts: 1649 Loc: San Carlos, CA	Quote: you end up with an unencrypted AAC file so you can just transcode after that Right, but the idea would be not to transcode so that you don't lose audio quality. That is where unencrypted AAC on the empeg would be handy. -Mike _________________________ EmpMenuX - ext3 filesystem - Empeg iTunes integration
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