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| '''Lossless Audio''' ('''La''') is a [[lossless]] audio [[codec]] 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. The developer has left this issue unfixed since 2004, indicating that La could be considered abandonware.
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| La might have been the highest compressing lossless encoder, though in [http://www.squeezechart.com/audio.html some comparisons] rivaled by [[OptimFrog]] at its highest and even slower settings (and also [[Sac]], an ultra-slow experimental compressor never used for playback). Both encoding and decoding are CPU-intensive. | |
| It is limited to 16 bit input. Whether this is a limitation to the format or to the current encoder is unknown but - hardly relevant, with the software being closed-source and unmaintained and no format specification being available.
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| == Additional Reading ==
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| * [http://www.lossless-audio.com/ Official website]
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| * [[Lossless_comparison|Lossless Codec Comparison]] originally by Rjamorim, with links to comparison tests.
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| * [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]
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| {{navbox audio codecs}}
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| [[Category:Codecs]]
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Latest revision as of 17:30, 18 May 2024
