Bug#298299: RFP: alac -- decoder for Apple Lossless Audio Codec

[Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@cc.jyu.fi>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : alac
  Version         : 0.1.0
  Upstream Author : David Hammerton
* URL             : http://craz.net/programs/itunes/alac.html
* License         : MIT/X (?)
  Description     : decoder for Apple Lossless Audio Codec


>From its homepage:

	 "Located here is a basic decoder for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
	 files (ALAC). ALAC is a proprietary lossless audio compression
	 scheme. Apple never released any documents on the format. What I
	 provide here is a C implementation of a decoder, written from
	 reverse engineering the file format. It turns out that most of
	 the algorithms in the codec are fairly well known. ALAC uses an
	 adaptive FIR prediction algorithm and stores the error values
	 using a modified rice or golumb algorithm. Further details are in
	 alac.c."


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686
Locale: LANG=fi_FI@euro, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)


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Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * * http colon slash slash iki dot fi slash juhtolv
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