Apple Lossless Audio Coding
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- FOURCCS: alac
- Company: Apple
- Technical Description: http://craz.net/programs/itunes/alac.html
Lossless audio coding using linear prediction with Golomb-Rice coding of the difference. Similar to FLAC, although the bitstreams are not compatible. Usually stored in an MP4 container, as a private extension since it is not part of the MPEG-4 standard.