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Why Apple Don't Support FLAC-in-OGG for Lossless Streaming

by bojanvidanovic on 1/25/25, 10:27 AM with 7 comments

• by stephenr on 1/25/25, 10:50 AM

  > Focus on proprietary formats: Apple has its own lossless codec, ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec), which it naturally prioritizes.

  What an odd claim to make, when the very Wikipedia page they link to says:

  > in late 2011 Apple made the codec available open source and royalty-free.

• by midzer on 1/25/25, 11:49 AM

  At least Safari supports OPUS audio in .webm container now.

  https://caniuse.com/opus

• by Ikhide_uanseoje on 1/25/25, 11:04 AM

  Thanks for explaining this to us.