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6 Basic decoder for Apple Lossless Audio Codec files (ALAC). ALAC is a
7 proprietary lossless audio compression scheme. Apple never released any
8 documents on the format. ALAC uses an adaptive FIR prediction algorithm
9 and stores the error values using a modified rice or golumb algorithm.