What would it take to add native ALAC support to Android?

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Apple just open sourced the Apple Lossless codec. With this in mind, would it be possible for a ROM maker to incorporate ALAC support so that all music apps could play the files?

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...en_source.html

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Originally Posted by ThugEsquire

Apple just open sourced the Apple Lossless codec. With this in mind, would it be possible for a ROM maker to incorporate ALAC support so that all music apps could play the files?

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...en_source.html

We can play almost any format. Alac "only" for apple. Flac is for computer, hi fi system, or anything including android. I have some flac as well.

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Originally Posted by melvinchng

We can play almost any format. Alac "only" for apple. Flac is for computer, hi fi system, or anything including android. I have some flac as well.

Again, ALAC just went open source. What would it take to roll ALAC support into an Android ROM?

Originally Posted by ThugEsquire

Again, ALAC just went open source. What would it take to roll ALAC support into an Android ROM?

Why not you use flac as it can be used anywhere?

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