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'''Lossless Audio''' ('''La''') is a [[lossless]] audio compressor developed 2002 to 2004 by Michael Bevin, for the Windows and Linux/x86 platforms.
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La is available as closed-source freeware with a graphical front-end and plugins for [[Winamp]]/[[XMMS]] and [[foobar2000]]; '''''its foobar2000 plugin truncates the end of files''''' and should be avoided.
 
La was - and might still be - the highest compressing lossless encoder, possibly rivaled only by [[OptimFrog]] at its highest (and apparently even slower) setting. Both encoding and decoding are CPU-intensive. 
It is limited to 16 bit input. With the software being closed-source and no format specification available, it is not known whether this is a limitation to the format or to the encoder.
 
 
 
== Addtional Reading ==
* [http://www.lossless-audio.com/ Official website]
* [[Lossless_comparison|Lossless Codec Comparison]] originally by Rjamorim, with links to comparisons.
* [https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=114989.msg948073#msg948073  HA forum thread describing how to decode LA files with foobar2000 using la.exe instead of the buggy plugin]
 
{{navbox audio codecs}}
 
[[Category:Codecs]]

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