Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

[Spoon]

Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

Your best bet is to convert to WMA Lossless - then import into iTunes and it will convert to Apple Lossless (all with tags).

[Unregistered]

Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

Thanks for the advice Spoon. Are you planning on coming out with a codec that can encode as well or is that going to be impossible because of Apple's secrecy?

[Zathras]

Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

I bow before the great Spoon... Nice one buddy.

Zath.

[Spoon]

Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

Just not motivated enough to create such (it would require too much time, which other things need).

[Daeken]

Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

It'd be fantastic if you'd release the source, release details, or point to documentation on it

Nice work

[Spoon]

Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

Codec Now Released (no changes from Beta), visit Codec Central to download.

[matjans]

Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

there seems to be a small problem with the apple lossless decoder. On my system, when I wanted to convert a whole lot of .m4a files to monkeys audio for use with foobar, I ran into a strange problem. When converting some files, i got an error moessage stating that file 'filename' could not be opened.

When i copied these files to a new location and renamed them to something like 'test.m4a' dbpoweramp had no problem converting them.

I have found that if the filename is longer than 59 characters (before the dot, extension not included) dbpoweramp refuses to open the file.

This is only a problem with the apple lossless decoder, when converting an mp3 with a ~100 character filename to the monkeys audio format no problems occurred.

Hope this helps and I hope you'll fix this soon, i have a lot of m4a files waiting to be converted to ape files but i'm not really planning on renaming all of the too-long files.

[Spoon]

Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

Perhaps apples quicktime libraries is not able to open those files with that length, I am 100% my code is ok to 260 chars.

[matjans]

Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

ok so i'll have to live with it :( . Might be handy if you'd mention this in a readme or something. It would probably save you a lot of questions.

btw, are you able to reproduce it? if not, which version of quicktime are you using?

Thanks,
Matti

[Spoon]

Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

Just switched PC and don't have QuickTime installed ATM.

[Spoon]

Re: Apple Lossless Decoding Codec

Read the documentation, quicktime is only 63 characters or less.