Audio
ALAC files
Apple’s lossless audio format. It keeps every bit of the original sound in a file often around half the size of WAV, and uses the .m4a extension.
- Full name
- Apple Lossless Audio Codec
- Made by
- Apple
- Introduced
- 2004
- File extension
- .m4a
- Compression
- Lossless
- Best for
- Lossless music in Apple’s Music app and on iPhone
- Opens in
- Apple devices and many players; less common elsewhere than FLAC
- In FileFlip
- Saves
Good at
- Lossless
- Smaller than WAV and AIFF
- Native on Apple devices
Not so good at
- Larger than AAC or MP3
- Shares the .m4a extension with AAC files
ALAC in FileFlip
FileFlip saves ALAC files. It doesn’t open them as a source format.
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