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There is also ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec), which has been open source and royalty-free since 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless https://e

• niftich 10y ago
  In all fairness ALAC is very similar to FLAC in its inner workings, but differs in arbitrary, minor ways that result in more complexity over FLAC (and of course, incompatibility) for little gain. I'm paraphrasing from a post from the FLAC developer himself [1], after someone released an ALAC decoder created through reverse-engineering the format, back in 2005. [1] https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,32111.msg279843.html#msg279843 https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,32111.msg279843.html#...
  • sjwright 10y ago
    Judging a codec by a reverse-engineered implementation may be very misleading. For example, the original codec may have been written to satisfy a different set of goals, e.g. optimised for energy consumption on a particular ARM CPU.