ALAC to ASF

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ALAC to ASF Converter

Convert ALAC to ASF


ALAC to ASF Converter converts ALAC to ASF. The software is an ALL-IN-ONE audio converter that supports more than 100 audio and video files.

ALAC to ASF Converter supports batch conversion and is full compatible with Vista and Windows 7.

  1. Free Download ALAC to ASF Converter
  2. Install the software by instructions
  3. Launch ALAC to ASF Converter
  4. Choose ALAC Files
    Click Add Files
    Click "Add Files" to choose ALAC files and add them to conversion list.

    Choose one or more ALAC file(s)
    Choose one or more ALAC file(s) you want to convert and then click "Open".

  5. Choose "to ASF"
    Convert to ASF

  6. Convert ALAC to ASF
    Click Convert
    Click "Convert" to convert ALAC files to ASF format.

    Converting ALAC to ASF
    The software is converting ALAC files to ASF format.

  7. Play and Browse ASF File
    Play and Browse ASF File
    Right-click converted file and choose "Play Destination" to play the outputted ASF file, choose "Browse Destination Folder" to open Windows Explorer to browse the ASF file.

  8. Done
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What is ALAC?
Apple Lossless (also known as Apple Lossless Encoder, ALE, or Apple Lossless Audio Codec, ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music.

Apple Lossless data is stored within an MP4 container with the filename extension .m4a. It is not a variant of AAC, but uses linear prediction similar to other lossless codecs such as FLAC and Shorten. iPod players with a dock connector (not the Shuffle) and recent firmware can play Apple Lossless-encoded files. It does not utilize any digital rights management (DRM) scheme, but by the nature of the container, it is thought that DRM can be applied to ALAC much the same way it can with other files in QuickTime containers.

What is ASF?
Advanced Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media. ASF is part of the Windows Media framework.

ASF is based on serialized objects which are essentially byte sequences identified by a GUID marker.

The format does not specify how (i.e. with which codec) the video or audio should be encoded; it just specifies the structure of the video/audio stream. This is similar to the function performed by the QuickTime, AVI, or Ogg container formats. One of the objectives of ASF was to support playback from digital media servers, HTTP servers, and local storage devices such as hard disk drives.

The most common filetypes contained within an ASF file are Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Windows Media Video (WMV). Note that the file extension abbreviations are different from the codecs which have the same name. Files containing only WMA audio can be named using a .WMA extension, and files of audio and video content may have the extension .WMV. Both may use the .ASF extension if desired.

ASF files can also contain objects representing metadata, such as the artist, title, album and genre for an audio track, or the director of a video track, much like the ID3 tags of MP3 files. It supports scalable media types and stream prioritization; as such, it is a format optimized for streaming.

The ASF container provides the framework for digital rights management in Windows Media Audio and Windows Media Video. An analysis of an older scheme used in WMA reveals that it is using a combination of elliptic curve cryptography key exchange, DES block cipher, a custom block cipher, RC4 stream cipher and the SHA-1 hashing function.

ASF container-based media is usually streamed on the internet either through the MMS protocol or the RTSP protocol.

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