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The 'Music' category is merely a guideline on commercialized uses of a particular format, not a technical assessment of its capabilities. For example, MP3 and AAC dominate the personal audio market in terms of market share, though many other formats are comparably well suited to fill this role from a purely technical standpoint.
The data compression software for encoding into ALAC files, Apple Lossless Encoder, was introduced into the Mac OS X Core Audio framework on April 28, 2004, together with the QuickTime 6.5.1 update, thus making it available in iTunes since version 4.5 and above, and its replacement, the Music application. [8]
For example, LAME was chosen as the representative MP3 encoder because it clearly outperformed four other MP3 encoders on a subset of the full sample corpus. Sebastian Mares: 2005 December multiple ~140 (nominal 128) Nero AAC 3.1.0.2 VBR/Stereo - Streaming, 100-120 kbit/s [LC AAC] iTunes AAC 6.0.1.3 128 kbit/s, VBR; LAME 3.97 Beta 2-V5—vbr-new
A lossless audio coding format reduces the total data needed to represent a sound but can be de-coded to its original, uncompressed form. A lossy audio coding format additionally reduces the bit resolution of the sound on top of compression, which results in far less data at the cost of irretrievably lost information.
Royalty-free Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No Vorbis: Lossy: 2000-05 Open source [93] Yes Private No No Tricky [δ] No No No No MP2: Lossy: 1991-12 Patent-free [ε] Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No MP1: Lossy: 1991-12 Expired patents Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No QDesign Music 1 and 2 Lossy: 1998 Proprietary: QuickTime [γ] No Yes No No No ...
In May 2006, Nero AG released an AAC encoding tool free of charge, Nero Digital Audio (the AAC codec portion has become Nero AAC Codec), [75] which is capable of encoding LC-AAC, HE-AAC and HE-AAC v2 streams. The tool is a command-line interface tool only.
Linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM, generally only described as PCM) is the format for uncompressed audio in media files and it is also the standard for CD-DA; note that in computers, LPCM is usually stored in container formats such as WAV, AIFF, or AU, or as raw audio format, although not technically necessary.
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