produces corrupted file

I noticed clipping in one of the songs that I downloaded with this tool. I compared it to the same track from another source, and there was no clipping there.
So I ran

ffmpeg -v error -i file.m4a -f null -
[alac @ 0x561315aa29c0] invalid element channel count
[aist#0:0/alac @ 0x5613159f92c0] [dec:alac @ 0x5613159f4e80] Error submitting packet to decoder: Invalid data found when processing input
[alac @ 0x561315a26880] invalid element channel count
[aist#0:0/alac @ 0x5613159f92c0] [dec:alac @ 0x5613159f4e80] Error submitting packet to decoder: Invalid data found when processing input
[alac @ 0x561315a81240] invalid element channel count
[aist#0:0/alac @ 0x5613159f92c0] [dec:alac @ 0x5613159f4e80] Error submitting packet to decoder: Invalid data found when processing input
[alac @ 0x561315ae58c0] invalid element channel count
[aist#0:0/alac @ 0x5613159f92c0] [dec:alac @ 0x5613159f4e80] Error submitting packet to decoder: Invalid data found when processing input
[alac @ 0x561315b17c00] invalid element channel count
[aist#0:0/alac @ 0x5613159f92c0] [dec:alac @ 0x5613159f4e80] Error submitting packet to decoder: Invalid data found when processing input
[alac @ 0x561315a25e40] invalid element channel count
[aist#0:0/alac @ 0x5613159f92c0] [dec:alac @ 0x5613159f4e80] Error submitting packet to decoder: Invalid data found when processing input

Interestingly, I have flac conversion enabled in the apple downloader config and the file was transcoded to flac without any errors, but the clipping is still present in the output.
Track in question - https://music.apple.com/us/song/carried-away-feat-night-lovell/1818471714
at around 28 second you can hear clipping.
There is no clipping when playing on apple music in the browser.

[knock2one]

I have this happen too, and it just cuts the audio out for me instead (on MPC-HC, it just skips the audio on MPV)

EDIT: this is an FFMPEG issue. I just converted the ALAC file to FLAC using dBpoweramp Music Converter and it's all there (this is not an ad 😭). They use their own decoder, which explains why it works flawlessly.