TAK

TAK
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lossless audio compression.
Developer(s)	Thomas Becker
Release	TBC
Type	Lossless
Recommended encoder	TAK v1.0
Website	Homepage (german)

General aspects of the format

The TAK (Tom's lossless Audio Kompressor) is a lossless audio compressor, promises compression performance similar to Monkey's Audio "High" and decompression speed similar to FLAC! The basic format is ready/save to use. Internal tagging, more playback support and some other features still has to come.

Features

• high compression
• fast compression and decompression speed
• fast seeking
• 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 decompression speed (par with FLAC / WavPack)
• Good compression levels (par with Monkey's Audio Extra 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)
• No Hybrid / Lossy Mode

Hardware and software that support TAK

Hardware

• non

Software

• Winamp Plugin 0.0.3 Alpha here

Recommended Settings

• best compression - mode "Extra" with "Maximum" appended
• fastest compression - mode "Turbo"
• 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.
• Multi channel audio.

Frequently asked questions

• non

External links

• TAK: Homepage (german)
• TAK: release (english)
• TAK: Download