<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> <pkgmetadata> <maintainer> <email>sbriesen@gentoo.org</email> <name>Stefan Briesenick</name> </maintainer> <longdescription lang="en"> 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. ALAC uses an adaptive FIR prediction algorithm and stores the error values using a modified rice or golumb algorithm. </longdescription> </pkgmetadata>