Apple Lossless Audio Codec

http://the-fr.org/id/file-format/1049

Name: Apple Lossless Audio Codec

Version:

Description: Apple Lossless, also known as Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), or Apple Lossless Encoder (ALE), is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music. Apple Lossless data is stored within an MP4 container with the filename extension .m4a.

Deprecated: false

MIMEType:

PUID: fmt/596

sameAs : PRONOM: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/596

Extension: m4a

Magic: true

Container Magic: false

Binary Magic: true

Signature Priority Over:

• http://the-fr.org/id/file-format/652

See Also (e.g. Wikidata, Library of Congress):

• http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q621277

Software that can read the format:

• http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q9539
• http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q192527
• http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q300915
• http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7204887
• http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15995229
• http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55263594

Alias:

Class: http://the-fr.org/def/format-registry/FileFormat

Type: http://the-fr.org/def/format-registry/Audio

SPARQL: http://the-fr.org/public/sparql/endpoint.php?query=describe+%3Chttp://the-fr.org/id/file-format/1049%3E&output=&jsonp=&key=&show_inline=1