To be a practically useful Airport Express Client, this software
should support many types of audio data. There are many open-source
audio decoder program, so it won't be a big deal to implement some
decoders for compressed audio data.
However, sending audio data to an Airport Express, the data must be
encoded into Apple Lossless Audio format. It seems Apple Lossless
Audio is not opened, and I couldn't have found any information about
it.
Only iTunes or Quicktime can convert audio data into Apple Lossless
Audio, and such software is not available on Linux.
After all, people need to open iTunes or Quciktime on Windows or
Macintosh, and convert all songs into Apple Lossless Audio, then go
to Linux and open this software, ..., few people would do that.
I'll appreciate any information about Apple Lossless Audio encoder.
Shiro
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2005-04-03
So will the audiocoding.com software work to decode mp3 to the Loseless Audio format for the Airport Express?? Or any other software out there that would convert it, please let me know..
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The latest JustePort release has a way of sending normal uncompressed audio to the airport extreme, so an alac encoder is no longer requied. The bandwidth use will probably be double that of streaming alac though.
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To be a practically useful Airport Express Client, this software
should support many types of audio data. There are many open-source
audio decoder program, so it won't be a big deal to implement some
decoders for compressed audio data.
However, sending audio data to an Airport Express, the data must be
encoded into Apple Lossless Audio format. It seems Apple Lossless
Audio is not opened, and I couldn't have found any information about
it.
Only iTunes or Quicktime can convert audio data into Apple Lossless
Audio, and such software is not available on Linux.
After all, people need to open iTunes or Quciktime on Windows or
Macintosh, and convert all songs into Apple Lossless Audio, then go
to Linux and open this software, ..., few people would do that.
I'll appreciate any information about Apple Lossless Audio encoder.
Shiro
Apple Lossless is a AAC Code
http://wiki.videolan.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=6
http://www.audiocoding.com/
i think that is what you need to get mp3 to Mp4a to play on Airport Express .
Apple Lossless is not AAC
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=21139&st=0
http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=4698
So will the audiocoding.com software work to decode mp3 to the Loseless Audio format for the Airport Express?? Or any other software out there that would convert it, please let me know..
The latest JustePort release has a way of sending normal uncompressed audio to the airport extreme, so an alac encoder is no longer requied. The bandwidth use will probably be double that of streaming alac though.