NativeInstruments
ALAC support on Windows
Hey,
Hope you are doing well.
I built a script to create Traktor stems called Stemgen. It is based on ni-stem and it creates MP4 audio files using ALAC or AAC. But Traktor can't read ALAC stems on Windows. And it really is a shame to be forced to encode lossy audio files to be able to use stems on Windows.
I haven't been able to test this hypothesis yet but I think that this issue is coming from this library.
More context in the forum and on GitHub.
Can you confirm this hypothesis? Happy to help and send a PR if that's the case :)
Still waiting for this to be acknowledged/fixed... it's rather frustrating.
Yeah, sorry about that...
I'm voicing this issue again on a new thread: https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/33853/lossless-stems. Traktor Pro 4 is out with stem separation so we might hear a lot more people complaining about this.
We do generally support reading alac encoded mp4 files on windows. We have several alac files that get tested on each commit in the windows CI:
ie: https://github.com/NativeInstruments/ni-media/blob/master/audiostream/test/test_files/reference_files/sin440.1.44100.44100.s16le.alac.m4a
Could you attach a short file generated by stemgen so we can run some tests with it? It should contain a master track, i.e. the default stream that will be opened.
