questions about ALAC free codec [also how to make a Xmms alac plugin]

ok so it is now free and open source



and doing this puts it on my system

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sudo apt-get install subversion

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svn checkout http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/alac/trunk ALAC

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cd ALAC/codec

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make

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BUT that all goes well but when i run alacconvert as a command


i get

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alacconvert: command not found

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so my first question is how do you use this to compress and decompress alac files


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my second question is how to make a Xmms alac plugin; since it is now open source there are no obstacles apart from knowing how to:KS:KS


any of you learned chaps see a way there?

To build the alacconvert utility there is an extra step, try running the following 3 commands:

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$ cd ALAC/convert-utility
$ sed -i_bak 's/$(CC) $(LFLAGS) $(OBJS) -o alacconvert/$(CC) $(OBJS) -o alacconvert $(LFLAGS)/' makefile
$ make

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and then copy alacconvert to somewhere on your $PATH such as /usr/local/bin. Hopefully that gets it going for you?

My version (the medibuntu version) of avconv says that it supports both decoding and encoding of ALAC, if that helps.

ok thnx well Andrew that helps altho it does not run an alac as m4a but a caf what the funk is a caf?

yes thanx evil one avconv and ffmpeg do conversions for that really well


just trying to see about this source code thing tho




NOW the prize money my real wish here is for an xmms plugin

who has the know-how to work from the source code to the plugin? sadly i do not

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Originally Posted by shantiq

ok thnx well Andrew that helps altho it does not run an alac as m4a but a caf what the funk is a caf?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Audio_Format

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Originally Posted by evilsoup

My version (the medibuntu version) of avconv says that it supports both decoding and encoding of ALAC, if that helps.

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FFmpeg reverse engineered ALAC decoding in 2005, and encoding in 2008 (I think). However, nobody has implemented the reference decoder or encoder. Probably not much interest since the native ones work well.

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Originally Posted by shantiq

my real wish here is for an xmms plugin

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Why? Just convert that ALACrap to FLAC.

nothing crap about alac Temujin; i love that format:KS flac is good too