Posted by: mlord
ALAC Codec support! - 05/03/2005 21:59
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?
Posted by: loren
Re: ALAC Codec support! - 06/03/2005 00:42
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 =]
Posted by: matthew_k
Re: ALAC Codec support! - 06/03/2005 00:57
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
Posted by: hybrid8
Re: ALAC Codec support! - 09/03/2005 19:51
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
Posted by: tman
Re: ALAC Codec support! - 09/03/2005 20:07
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.