TuneFUSION { Help Index > Apple Lossless Encoder }
This Apple Lossless Encoder (ALAC) use the Apple Open Source Library and encodes to .m4a files, both 16 & 24 bit are supported.
Portions are (c) Apple and are licensed under the Apache License.
Compression Options
Apple Lossless does not have many options, actually it has no configurable options, it does not need any (being lossless).
Terminology
Encoding: compress and write audio track,
Decoding: uncompress and read the track,
ID Tags: meta data such as artist & album are embedded inside the audio file,
Lossless: compression without audio quality loss,
Lossy: audio quality is sacrificed (how much depends on bitrate and codec used) to achieve smaller files,
Gapless: allows the decoder to decode audio stream without gaps (silence).
