title
Products            Buy            Support Forum            Professional            About            Codec Central
 

Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

Collapse
X
 
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
  • Spoon
    Administrator
    • Apr 2002
    • 44509

    Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

    Fully released Apple Lossless decoder:

    Last edited by Spoon; January 19, 2006, 07:56 PM.
    Spoon
    www.dbpoweramp.com
  • neilh

    • Jan 2004
    • 12

    #2
    Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

    Sweet. I just converted an album to mp3 using LAME (alt standard). The audio seems to be fine.

    The song title tag is having problems though.
    When I open one of the MP3 files in iTunes, the tags are all in tact except for the song title tag. It uses the filename and puts another track number before it: filename "01 Tine Spark" gets "01 01 Tiny Spark" for song title. In Windows Media Player, it just uses the filename for the song title. In JetAudio it shows up as no title. Again, the other tags are all intact. When I look at the source, I see the title in there, but I don't know enough to diagnose it.

    thanks Spoon. Neil

    Comment

    • SeeMoreDigital

      • Feb 2004
      • 11

      #3
      Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

      Not bad at all Spoon!


      Cheers

      Comment

      • Unregistered

        #4
        Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

        Thank you so much for the Codec! I found the same issue with the song titles but it is nice to be able to drag songs from Itunes into the dBpower power amp CD Writer. I was not able to overburn a CD in itunes and this decoder came in very handy!

        Comment

        • Spoon
          Administrator
          • Apr 2002
          • 44509

          #5
          Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

          If you convert a apple lossless to mp3 all the id tag is there apart from Song Title? (ie artist, album, genre?)
          Spoon
          www.dbpoweramp.com

          Comment

          • Guest

            #6
            Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

            Originally posted by Spoon
            If you convert a apple lossless to mp3 all the id tag is there apart from Song Title? (ie artist, album, genre?)
            I have just tried this and for me the result is the same. Converting to MP3 and playing in Winamp - The artist, album, year, track num and genre work. But the Title tag is blank.

            Also. It's not adding any tag to OGG.

            Comment

            • neilh

              • Jan 2004
              • 12

              #7
              Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

              Originally posted by Spoon
              If you convert a apple lossless to mp3 all the id tag is there apart from Song Title? (ie artist, album, genre?)
              This is true. Artist, Album, Genre, Year, Track all seem to go though fine. Song title causes problems.

              Also, a minor thing: when converting one song, the statrus bar doesn't work for me. It just goes from 0 to 100% when it's done. This isn't the case with other formats. Is this b/c you use quicktime?

              cheers. Neil

              Comment

              • Spoon
                Administrator
                • Apr 2002
                • 44509

                #8
                Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

                I will have to look into it.
                Spoon
                www.dbpoweramp.com

                Comment

                • Unregistered

                  #9
                  Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

                  Just got started with dbpowerAMP and am very happy to have found it although all things considered, I should have just not upgraded to iTunes 4.6.

                  I'm using hymn to convert my m4p files to m4a. Hymn keeps all the tags including album art. As the beta Apple Losless codec progresses, do you think album art will be included in the conversion? Thank you very much for your work on this tool.

                  Daniel

                  Comment

                  • Spoon
                    Administrator
                    • Apr 2002
                    • 44509

                    #10
                    Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

                    I don't think it would, there are very patchy standards for album artwork across formats.
                    Spoon
                    www.dbpoweramp.com

                    Comment

                    • Spoon
                      Administrator
                      • Apr 2002
                      • 44509

                      #11
                      Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

                      Updated today (same download link above), fixed Title tag, and percentage works in Music Converter.
                      Spoon
                      www.dbpoweramp.com

                      Comment

                      • Unregistered

                        #12
                        Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

                        I decoded a Dave Matthews Album into FLAC format and all everything has been preserved.

                        Comment

                        • Unregistered

                          #13
                          Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

                          I've also been able to successfully convert apple lossless files to other lossless and lossy formats. The title problem and progress bar issue are no more.

                          2 questions:

                          - When apple releases the source(or technical papers) on the format, will you rwrite this so it doesn't require quicktime.

                          - It is a shame about the cover art. I often see software (mp3 and htpc software) that is able to dispay cover art, so it seems like there is some sort of a general standard. Ypu wouldn't have to manipulkate the actual image data, would you - couldn't you just pass it through.

                          Comment

                          • Spoon
                            Administrator
                            • Apr 2002
                            • 44509

                            #14
                            Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

                            I don't think apple will release anything on it (see the recent news about Apple attacking Real because Real use their m4p container...), Apple are pretty much a scum company (they have had the ipod out for years, but have released nothing to the 3rd party developers about the database format).
                            Spoon
                            www.dbpoweramp.com

                            Comment

                            • Unregistered

                              #15
                              Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

                              Converting other lossless formats TO Apple Lossless (for example, I want to convert the Monkey's Audio files on my PC to Apple Lossless format to play on my iPod), are tags working or no? If not, is it because of a bug you are planning on fixing or is it becuase Apple is being difficult?

                              Comment

                              Working...

                              ]]>