lossless wav compression

[Jbravo]

I just found this free tool which compresses wav files to about half their size and thought I'd share - handy for archiving mastered tracks or samples on CD

http://www.softsound.com/Shorten.html

just make sure you don't lose the decompression tool!

[rjt]

Good link. I have used this for several years:

http://www.monkeysaudio.com/

As I have a number of CDs burned with this, I'll stick to it. Your point about saving the tool is good also. It is small enough that I burn it onto most of the CDs where I store the WAV files.

Take Care

[Lazlo Minimart]

I have used mkwACT to compress CD-quality wav files to shn prior to archiving for years. Never given me any trouble.

http://home.att.net/~mkw/mkwact.html

For files at higher than CD quality, I've used LPAC with similar reliability.

http://www.nue.tu-berlin.de/wer/liebchen/lpac.html

That said, I hope to upgrade to a DVD-R soon so that lossless compression before archiving won't be necessary.

[kuniklo]

I have used mkwACT to compress CD-quality wav files to shn prior to archiving for years. Never given me any trouble.

http://home.att.net/~mkw/mkwact.html

For files at higher than CD quality, I've used LPAC with similar reliability.

http://www.nue.tu-berlin.de/wer/liebchen/lpac.html

That said, I hope to upgrade to a DVD-R soon so that lossless compression before archiving won't be necessary.

The open source, cross platform flac is also a great lossless compresser and it's free. You can read about it or download it from here:

http://flac.sourceforge.net/

Apple also released their own lossless compressor in the newest version of iTunes. It might be a good bet for you if you mainly use macs.

[Sascha Franck]

Just for those that may not know allready: WinRar compresses almost as good as any other tool. And it's pretty much a standard format. Works exceptionally well with 24bit files.
I often use it in case a certain project doesn't fit on a single CD anymore.