KVR Audio

reggaemylitis · Post by **reggaemylitis** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:03 am

hi all,
what is a good algorithm (format) for compression of audio material. It should be lossless. I read about it some time ago. Now I nneed it but can´t remember any names/ test results. i need it for exchange of projects (wave) over the internet.

Peter321 · Post by **Peter321** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:10 am

Apples Quicktime Pro 6.5.1 has a new lossless audio format - at least on the Mac, not sure about the PC version.

Peter

farlukar · Post by **farlukar** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:11 am

flac, for example...
It reduces filesize to ±50%

ericj23 · Post by **ericj23** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:12 am

flac, ape, shorten, mkw - choose yer poison

that should be enough for you to get started

mauseoleum · Post by **mauseoleum** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:12 am

http://flac.sourceforge.net/

nevermind QT.

fake · Post by **fake** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:22 am

Monkeys audio

Ape it is

fake

mauseoleum · Post by **mauseoleum** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:24 am

shock the monkey.

wait a minute - shouldn't it be spelled *algoriddim* ?

gassle · Post by **gassle** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 12:11 pm

WMA Pro Lossless is my favorite on PC. SX, Audition and Sound Forge etc. fully support it.

garret · Post by **garret** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 12:28 pm

RAR is also a good option... it compresses audio much better than ZIP, but is just as easy to use... it's not a codec, just a compression utility you'd run to crunch down your raw wav files.

RAR is available for many platforms, and while it's not open-source, it doesn't look to be going away any time soon... so long-term, you're probably in good shape storing material in RAR archives.

-Garret

lossless audio compression algorithm