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Apple Lossless

Summary

Apple Lossless is a file format[1]. It draws 157 Wikipedia views per month (file_format category, ranking #43 of 297).[2]

Key Facts

  • Apple Lossless's instance of is recorded as file format[3].
  • Apple Lossless's instance of is recorded as audio codec[4].
  • Apple Lossless's instance of is recorded as lossless audio coding format[5].
  • Apple Lossless's logo image is recorded as Apple Lossless Logo 2.svg[6].
  • Apple Lossless's developer is recorded as Apple Inc.[7].
  • Apple Lossless's copyright license is recorded as Apache Software License 2.0[8].
  • Apple Lossless's publication date is recorded as +2004-04-28T00:00:00Z[9].
  • Apple Lossless's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/033cqz[10].
  • Apple Lossless's official website is recorded as https://macosforge.github.io/alac/[11].
  • Apple Lossless's file extension is recorded as m4a[12].
  • Apple Lossless's file extension is recorded as caf[13].
  • Apple Lossless's source code repository URL is recorded as https://github.com/macosforge/alac[14].
  • Apple Lossless's PRONOM file format ID is recorded as fmt/596[15].
  • Apple Lossless's File Format Wiki page ID is recorded as ALAC[16].
  • Apple Lossless's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19656007[17].
  • Apple Lossless's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[18].
  • Apple Lossless's Fandom article ID is recorded as apple:Apple_Lossless[19].
  • Apple Lossless's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776483841[20].
  • Apple Lossless's Repology project name is recorded as alac[21].
  • Apple Lossless's openSUSE package is recorded as alac[22].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include file format[3], audio codec[4], and lossless audio coding format[5].

Why It Matters

Apple Lossless draws 157 Wikipedia views per month (file_format category, ranking #43 of 297).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Apple Inc.

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Retrieved . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Retrieved . fileformats.archiveteam.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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