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  * [[Lossless_comparison|Lossless Comparison]] = Audio Codecs =
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• Free Lossless Audio Codec
  | type = lossless | purpose = Popular open source patent free lossless compression scheme.
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• Vorbis
  ...ng ([http://us.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/doc/stereo.html point/phase stereo] and lossless) * [http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Ogg_Cutter.htm Ogg Cutter] (Win32)
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• Matroska
  ...ble open standard audio/video container format for various video and audio codecs. Matroska is based on [[EBML]], a binary variation of XML. It's aim is to r ...matroska.org/index.html Home Page]) supports the following audio and video codecs:
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• Monkey's Audio
  | type = lossless | purpose = A fast and powerful lossless audio compressor
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• WavPack
  | caption = Hybrid Lossless Audio Compression ...sless]] audio [[codec]], also offering optionally a [[hybrid codec| hybrid lossless/lossy]] mode. It is distributed as a free open-source encoder/decoder with
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• MP3
  The polyphase filter bank and its inverse are not [[lossless]] transformations. Even without [[quantize|quantization]], the inverse tran ....html here] for diagrams showing the average time resolutions of different codecs.
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• Musepack
  ...(then called MP+) because he was unsatisfied with the audio quality of MP3 codecs at the time. It is strongly based on the [[MPEG-1]] Layer-2 ([[MP2]]) algor * [[WAV]], raw [[PCM]], a lot of [[lossless]] compressed audio formats like [[FLAC]], [[LPAC]], [[Monkey's_Audio|APE]],
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• TTA
  | type = lossless '''The True Audio''' ('''TTA''') is a [[lossless]] audio [[codec]]. It is distributed as a free open-source (GPL/LGPL) enco
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• OptimFROG
  | type = lossless ...G''' is a [[lossless]] audio [[codec]] with optional [[Hybrid codec|hybrid lossless/lossy]] encoding. It comes with a freeware (closed-source) command-line en
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• Lossy
  * [[Lossless]] [[Category:Codecs|*]]
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• Codec
  ...gnals. Examples are [[MP3]] audio or mpeg-4 video (see [[MPEG-4 Visual]]). Codecs can be used with both [[Streaming]] (live video or audio) or file-based (e. * [[Lossless]]
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• Windows Media Audio
  ...ft's compressed audio formats; "WMA" is a generic name for several [[codec|codecs]]. .wma ''files'' (and .wmv files) are [[ASF]] container files with a suff ...i/Comparison_of_digital_music_stores</ref> (Qobuz, offering both lossy and lossless WMA<ref>https://help.qobuz.com/en/articles/10167-what-are-the-different-aud
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• GStreamer
  == Supported codecs == ...t|AIFF]], [[Advanced Audio Coding|AAC]], [[MP3]], (Ogg) [[Vorbis]], [[Free Lossless Audio Codec|FLAC]], [[Speex]], [[Monkey's Audio]], [[TTA]], [[Musepack]]
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• Lossless
  ...ncompressed original. Also, a format that stores data ''uncompressed'' is lossless if it can be reverted back to the original bit-by-bit. ...ZIP or RAR or Windows NTFS file compression feature; this article is about lossless compression of audio signals.
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• Pulse Code Modulation
  ...udio Interchange File Format|AIFF]] files. Most [[lossless]] audio [[codec|codecs]] for end-users compress linear PCM. Being by far the most common form for
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• Shorten
  '''Shorten''' is one of the oldest [[lossless]] audio formats. It was created by Tony Robinson in 1993. Being the first open source lossless compressor, it became popular in its time, especially in the bootleg tradin
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• Meridian Lossless Packing
  '''Meridial Lossless Packing''' ('''MLP''') is a [[lossless]] audio [[codec]] developed by the British pro-audio developer and manufact ...engineered, and decoding is now [https://www.ffmpeg.org/general.html#Audio-Codecs supported in ffmpeg] (with an experimental encoder).
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• ReplayGain
  ...e the [https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,34154.0.html "mp3gain is NOT lossless" forum thread]) * Format: [[Free Lossless Audio Codec|FLAC]]
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• Download page
  ...it into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. Can convert between many lossless and lossy formats. Plugin oriented design, for easy exchange for new encode | align="left" | Supports many popular digital audio codecs and MOD tracker formats
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• Variable Bitrate
  Some codecs limited to [[Constant Bitrate]] (CBR) include [[AC3]] (in theory it can enc All [[lossless]] compression is VBR.
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• Lossless Audio
  '''Lossless Audio''' ('''La''') is a [[lossless]] audio [[codec]] developed 2002 to 2004 by Michael Bevin, for the Windows La might have been the highest compressing lossless encoder, though in [http://www.squeezechart.com/audio.html some comparisons
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• RK Audio
  ...lm Taylor together with RK (a general purpose data compressor) and RKim (a lossless image compressor). <br/> ...parently it also decodes one of the two known lossy profiles (the "simple" lossless profile), but the user should be cautioned that the other lossy profile ("V
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• Choosing the best codec
  ; [[Lossy]] codecs: * There are other lossy codecs at the [[lossy]] page.
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• FAQ
  ;Why not use graphs / frequency analysis to compare codecs? :* [[lossless|Lossless]] encoding
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• Lossless comparison
  ...ossless codecs available so users can make an informed decision as to what lossless codec to choose for their needs. Given the enormous number of [[lossless]] audio compressor choices available, it is a very difficult task to choose
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• ALAC
  | name = Apple Lossless Audio Codec | format_type = Lossless audio codec
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• Hydrogenaudio Listening Tests
  ...s by organizing and participating in public blind listening tests of lossy codecs and presenting statistical analyses of the results. These results show the ...t-identical to the original uncompressed recordings. [[Lossless comparison|Lossless encoder comparisons]] instead consider technical aspects such as compressio
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• Rockbox
  == Codecs == ...y]] codecs (depending on how one counts), five [[lossless data compression|lossless]], two uncompressed and six miscellaneous formats.<ref>[https://download.ro
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• Snow
  ...form based codecs, like [[Ogg]] [[Tarkin]]. It can compress both lossy and lossless data. [[Category:Video codecs]]
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• DTS-HD
  ...ly used in Blu-ray and HD-DVD &ndash; optionally, competing with the Dolby codecs family. It is an extension of the older [[DTS|DTS Coherent Acoustics]] code ...only supporting that format, and a correction stream specified in the DTS "Lossless Extension". DTS-HD devices will decode both to reconstruct the signal loss
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• Slim Devices Transporter
  === Audio Codecs === ==== Lossless ====
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• Slim Devices Squeezebox
  === Audio Codecs === ==== Lossless ====
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• TAK
  | name = Tom's lossless Audio Kompressor | type = lossless
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• LossyWAV
  ...of the input signal, which, when used in conjunction with certain lossless codecs, reduces the bitrate of the encoded file significantly compared to unprepro ...a hardware compatibility perspective) at a reduced bitrate compared to the lossless version.
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• CUETools
  | caption = lossless audio/CUE sheet format conversion and verification ... sure the album image is preserved accurately. Lossless disc image must be lossless not only in preserving contents of the audio tracks, but also in preserving
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• Fre:ac
  * Support for external (command line) codecs * Lossless file verification
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• ReplayGain 2.0 specification
  * .flac (Free Lossless Audio Codec) &ndash; '''Vorbis comments''' * .ogg (Ogg Vorbis) &ndash; '''Vorbis comments''', same for other Ogg codecs
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• Opus
  Opus incorporates technology from two codecs, the speech-oriented SILK codec developed by Skype and the multi-purpose lo ...ents within the same operating mode that are available in most VBR-capable codecs.
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• PowerShell Audio
  * A unified interface to popular codecs (see Supported Formats). * [[Apple Lossless]]
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• AudioWorks
  * A unified interface to popular codecs (see Supported Formats). * [[Apple Lossless]]
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• Mp3HD
  | format_type = Lossless audio codec ...gy/2009/03/new-lossless-mp3hd-format-trades-convenience-for-file-size/ New lossless mp3HD format trades convenience for file size | Ars Technica]</ref><ref>[ht
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• MPEG-4 ALS
  ...codec]], developed to extend the [[MPEG-4]] Part 3 audio standard to allow lossless audio compression. First released in 2006, it is standardized as ISO/IEC 14 ...r as .als files. By default it compresses files for full restore (not only lossless audio, but also recreating the original file bit by bit with the same metad
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• Hybrid codec
  ...be played back as such, and then a correction stream such that decoding is lossless when both are present. The correction stream can be in the same file as the ...e copied without the time or computing effort needed to transcode lossy to lossless every time; rather than keeping two sets of files, one can maintain one sin
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• Sac
  ...''Sac''' can refer to (at least) one out of two lesser-known audio [[codec|codecs]], which are not aimed at end-users. ...pression ratio''<ref>https://encode.su/threads/1137-Sac-(State-of-the-Art)-Lossless-Audio-Compression Lehmann's 2010 post at encode.su, updated</ref>. It come
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• Foobar2000:Version 2.0 Beta Change Log
  * Better info reporting for lossless DTS files. * Added extra sanity checks to tag update operations in built-in codecs: made sure that attempts to remove covers from files that didn't have them
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• Foobar2000:Components/Audio MD5 (foo audiomd5)
  ...e checksum will not match the MD5 of various lossless audio formats. Those codecs calculate the checksum from the uncompressed PCM data before the compressio Since version 0.5 there is an advanced configuration option to switch lossless format checksum to be calculated from the decoded PCM output.
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