With iOS 11, Apple adds native support for the Flac audio format: explanations

The new apps made by
Apple are rare, so it is an event when the Californian firm in
reveals one more. And during WWDC last Monday,
summarized here, it was revealed Files,
a new Apple file management applicationfor in particular
centralize photos, documents, audio files and videos in one place
space, and whose sources can be both local and on different
Cloud. Well it turns out that not only is this app very practical, it also knows how to
also read thefree and lossless FLAC audio format:

This is all the more remarkable, as until then, the FLAC for "Free Lossless
Audio Codec", or "lossless audio compression format", is not readable
by iTunes neither on Mac nor on iPhone, iPod or iPad.

Apple also released an equivalent format in 2004, the ALAC, for
Apple Lossless Audio Codec, identical in idea, i.e. compression of
data, but without loss of information, unlike other formats
compressed with loss MP3 or even AAC.

Audiophile users wanting to enjoy lossless format on
Apple hardware in the simplest way must therefore use format
ALACinstead of FLAC, while the latter remains readable by
many portable players and third-party apps on iOS, Mac and Windows.

FLAC support in the Files app in iOS 11 is particularly welcome.
And even if it is not possible in this app to manage
push of music pieces, with playback playlist for example, it's
always good to take.

This could also indicate future FLAC support in a more
wide in iOS 11 in final version, why not in Apple Music, while
Apple's new audiophile object, theHomePodis precisely centered on a
quality musical experience?

See you next fall for the release of iOS 11 in final version
accessible to the general public to get to the bottom of it.

Also read, therecent information regarding
iOS 11, dont :

• 
  Apple Keynote: all the new iOS 11, iPad, Mac and HomePod features in one
  article
• What
  iPhone and iPad to take advantage of iOS 11
• 
  The App Store redesigned with iOS 11: the editorial in the spotlight, here are the
  changes
• Sharing
  Wi-Fi codes made easier in iOS 11
• All this
  What you need to know about the new iOS 11 Control Center
• 
  Moving multiple app icons from page to page with iOS 11 is easy
  (video)
• 
  iOS 11 helps regain storage space with suggestions
• iOS
  11 provides a function to record screen video,
  directly from iPhone or iPad
• iOS
  11 allows direct reading of QR codes: operation in
  video
• It is
  fact, 32-bit apps are no longer supported by iOS 11
• The
  NFC chip of the iPhone finally opens: reading tags at the rendezvous of
  apps with iOS 11
• 
  Live Blog from the Apple WWDC 2017 conference: iOS 11, new Mac, iPad,
  etc.

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