don't really know where to put this. what's a good lossless compression for compressing audio? i only know a couple... real audio lossless, monkey's audio...
and by the way, anyone know what tracktion uses for it's lossless compression?
good lossless compression format?
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- KVRian
- 886 posts since 2 Jun, 2005 from Hawaii
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- KVRer
- 14 posts since 10 May, 2006
FLAC
OGG
OGG
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- KVRAF
- 3299 posts since 7 May, 2004 from Athens, Greece
Dont think that Ogg has a lossless mode. At least AFAIK.ezra dread wrote:FLAC
OGG
FLAC is a good really lossless codec and it's what T uses for lossless compression.
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- KVRAF
- 1898 posts since 4 Mar, 2004 from The Forests of Lombard
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 886 posts since 2 Jun, 2005 from Hawaii
fair question. just wondering what people use, i guess, and was curious what tracktion uses.No offence, but if you already know a couple, what's the question?
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- KVRAF
- 37520 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
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- KVRAF
- 3846 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from Underworld
Wavpack - supports all bitdepths, even 32bit float wavs. It's also supported in Wavelab with a 3rd party plugin and Reaper VST host.
FLAC - nicely supported even in some hardware devices, but not in Wavelab. I think Adobe Audition supports it, though. Supported bitdepths: 16bit and 24bit.
They're both rather quick at encoding and especially at decoding and both have flawless support for streaming and seeking.
A lot of software players support them, both, and it's not hard to find a directshow filter, so you could play FLAC/Wavpack files in Windows Media Player, for instance...
Personally, I'm using Wavpack for all [used to use FLAC, too], as I like to simplify things
and lame MP3 for previews and when audio file size is of greater importance than audio quality.
Cheers!
FLAC - nicely supported even in some hardware devices, but not in Wavelab. I think Adobe Audition supports it, though. Supported bitdepths: 16bit and 24bit.
They're both rather quick at encoding and especially at decoding and both have flawless support for streaming and seeking.
A lot of software players support them, both, and it's not hard to find a directshow filter, so you could play FLAC/Wavpack files in Windows Media Player, for instance...
Personally, I'm using Wavpack for all [used to use FLAC, too], as I like to simplify things
and lame MP3 for previews and when audio file size is of greater importance than audio quality.Cheers!
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- KVRian
- 520 posts since 11 Sep, 2003 from Berlin, Germany
FLAC, MonkeyAudio and WavPack are all very suitable. Or good old WinRAR btw (it's slower, but compresses just as good, as it has a special audio-mode).
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- KVRAF
- 2685 posts since 14 Jul, 2005 from Australia
I used to use Monkey's Audio which compressed a little more than FLAC but I've switched to FLAC for a few reasons...
1) I had read that there were some issues with FLAC decoding when the file was a little damaged.
2) FLAC decompresses a lot lot faster. (Quicker for transcoding)
3) FLAC is a lot more supported on hardware.
4) As of version foobar2000 0.9, APE is no longer supported 100 % by the foobar developers due to the problems they had in point 1). FLAC is totally supported.
Truth is, both are awesome. Wavepack is also fantastic, especially it's Hybrid mode
Cheers
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1) I had read that there were some issues with FLAC decoding when the file was a little damaged.
2) FLAC decompresses a lot lot faster. (Quicker for transcoding)
3) FLAC is a lot more supported on hardware.
4) As of version foobar2000 0.9, APE is no longer supported 100 % by the foobar developers due to the problems they had in point 1). FLAC is totally supported.
Truth is, both are awesome. Wavepack is also fantastic, especially it's Hybrid mode
Cheers
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