TAK
| TAK | |
|---|---|
| File:TAK-logo.gif | |
| lossless audio compression. | |
| Developer(s) | Thomas Becker |
| Release | TBC |
| Type | Lossless |
| Recommended encoder | TAK v1.0 |
| Website | Homepage (german) |
General aspects of the format
TAK (Tom's lossless Audio Kompressor) is a lossless audio compressor which promises compression performance similar to Monkey's Audio "High" and decompression speed similar to FLAC. While the basic format is ready and safe to use, many features such as internal tagging, playback support for other players are yet to be implemented.
Features
- high compression
- fast compression and decompression speed
- Streaming support
- Error tolerance
- single bit error will never affect more than 250 ms
- Error detection
- each frame protected by a 24-bit checksum (CRC)
Pros
- Fast encoding speed (TAK Turbo encodes faster than Flac -0 or wavpack -f; Tak Extra Max encodes as fast as Flac -8 or Wavpack -hx3)
- Fast decompression speed (on par with FLAC / WavPack)
- Good compression levels (on par with Monkey's Audio High)
- Error Robustness
- Fast Seeking
Cons
- Closed Source (at the moment)
- No hardware support
- Very limited software support (Only winamp plugin at the moment, SDK to be released soon)
- Tagging is not mature at the moment (ApeV2 Tags can be added using Foosion's decoder stubble, but the decoder can't read the tags)
Hardware and software that support TAK
Hardware
- none
Software
- Winamp Plugin 0.0.3 Alpha here
Recommended Settings
- best compression - mode "Extra" with "Maximum" appended (-4m)
- fastest compression - mode "Turbo" (-0)
- use ApeV2 tagging (will be used as internal tagging)
Future Features
- Plugins for other applications, such as Winamp or foobar2000 (a Winamp plugin is already close to completion).
- An SDK for other developers.
- Internal tagging.
- Unicode support.
- Piping support.
- MD5 audio checksums for verification and identification.
- A german version.
- Embedded cue sheets.
- Embedded cover art.
- Multichannel audio.
Frequently asked questions
- to be added
External links
- TAK: Homepage (german)
- TAK: release (english)
- TAK: Download
- Comparison with Other Codecs (by Synthetic Soul)
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