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On Windows Phone 7 (WP7) there is no FLAC support available in the default Zune media player [35] [36] though playback is supported in third-party applications like a Flac Player. [37] Similar goes for Windows Phone 8. Microsoft Windows 10 supports FLAC decoding in Windows Media Player and other software that uses Windows platform APIs for ...
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]
Synchronization: ability to sync content from local libraries with external devices (including iOS 3.0-based and earlier), and import libraries from iTunes and Windows Media Player. File converter: single/batch file conversion from/to all supported audio formats, with original metadata preserved. In dealing with identical output files instances ...
etree.org is a trading site for authorized recordings of live performances; etree formerly used Shorten exclusively but is increasingly using FLAC. Shorten FAQ (note: If looking for software to play .shn files, you will probably be better served by the etree software page, as the Shorten FAQ has many broken and outdated links.)
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 short-term predictor is similar to FLAC in its operation – it is a quantized LPC predictor with a losslessly coded residual using Golomb Rice Coding or Block Gilbert Moore Coding (BGMC). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The long term predictor is modeled by 5 long-term weighted residues, each with its own lag (delay).
FLAC (/ f l æ k /; Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and is also the name of the free software project producing the FLAC tools, the reference software package that includes a codec implementation.
It is accurate to say that Apple Lossless is suitable for playback on the iPod, however the Rockbox software can also play FLAC, WavPack, and Shorten on iPods. There isn't anything particularly special about the technology in Apple Lossless, and the fact that it can be played on iPods is mentioned in the preceeding paragraph.