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The Apple Lossless Encoder (and decoder) were released as open source software under the Apache License version 2.0 on October 27, 2011. [10] [11] [12] On May 17, 2021, Apple announced that they would begin offering lossless audio in Apple Music in June 2021, with all lossless music being encoded using ALAC. [13]
FLAC is natively supported on IOS 11, including all "iDevices", but only via the Files (Apple) app or iCloud Drive. iTunes does not support FLAC, with Apple only offering native support for their own similar ALAC lossless audio format. Third-party applications are available in the App Store which enable FLAC playback.
In 2018, Google announced a transition from Google Play Music to YouTube Music, [6] and in May, 2020, Google had created a transfer tool to migrate added albums, uploads, history, and playlists. [7] On October 22, 2020, Google Play Music was discontinued. [8] Apple was the last of the first three services to launch, which they did on October 12 ...
It's time to up your audio game. Apple Music and Spotify both announced they will offer lossless audio streaming. Apple will offer it in June, and Spotify will offer it...well, we're not sure yet ...
Following a series of leaks hinting at the new feature, Apple announced on Monday that lossless audio will be coming to its entire library of songs on Apple Music starting this June. Apple says ...
Apple Music's entire library will be available in lossless soon, but it won't work with AirPods Max. Here's why that's the case. Here's why AirPods Max don't support Apple Music Lossless
In later years, Apple began offering music videos and movies, which also use AAC for audio encoding. On May 29, 2007, Apple began selling songs and music videos from participating record labels at higher bitrate (256 kbit/s cVBR) and free of DRM, a format dubbed "iTunes Plus" .
In a lossless compressed format, however, the music would occupy a smaller file than an uncompressed format and the silence would take up almost no space at all. Lossless compression formats include FLAC, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, ALAC (Apple Lossless). They provide a compression ratio of about 2:1 (i.e. their files take up half the space of PCM).