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Hallo Erik and List!
> Just an FYI. I am in the process of adding support for Apple's lossless

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> Audio Codec (ALAC) [0] to libsndfile. Should be done my the end of the

> weekend.

Did you already have some progress in implementing ALAC support ?
I just tried to compile the Apple source code and run into some problems:

- First the makefile did not work, see [1]

- According to this thread [2] the encoded files don't even play in iTunes

- they have a new "magic cookie" and I did not find any compatible

player (ffmpeg seems to have a fix now [3])
Someone in the hydrogenaudio forum added some fixes:

- see [4], code is at http://perkele.cc/software/ALAC

- for linux you have to change ag_dev.c (line 113, remove "{") and

ag_enc.c (line 88, remove "{")

- however, that seems to be mostly for windows, I am still not sure if

the encoded files are correct ...
I am just curious if you had some progress, otherwise I will do some

more experiments ...
Thanks for any hints!

LG

Georg
[1]: http://alac.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/1

[2]:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=91530&pid=774240...

[3]:

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2011-November/042755.h...

[4]:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=91530&pid=778407...
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