Recently at a jump pondered music, some of the best lossless formats. Found such a plate
| Capabilities | FLAC | WavPack | TAK | Monkey's |
| Coding rate | fast | very fast | very fast | fast |
| decoding speed (play) | very fast | very fast | very fast | medium |
| Compression * | 58.70% | 58.0% | 57.0% | 55.50% |
| Flexible settings ** | great | great | great | great |
| Error control | yes they are | yes they are | yes they are | no |
| Search (Seeking) | yes they are | yes they are | yes they are | yes they are |
| Teggirovanie | Vorbis tags | ID3/APE | APEv2 (exp.) | ID3/APE |
| The prevalence of iron | great | limited | no | limited |
| software distribution | great | good | medium | good |
| Hybrid/lossy | no | yes they are | no | no |
| Replay Gain | yes they are | yes they are | yes they are | no |
| RIFF chunks | yes they are | yes they are | yes they are | |
| Streaming | yes they are | yes they are | yes they are | no |
| Pipe support | yes they are | yes they are | yes they are | yes they are |
| open codec (Open source) | yes they are | yes they are | no | yes they are |
| multipathing | yes they are | yes they are | no | no |
| A high resolution | yes they are | yes they are | yes they are | yes they are |
| Supported Operating Systems | All | All | Win/Linux Wine | All |
| Capabilities | OptimFROG | ALAC | WMA lossless |
| Coding rate | slow | medium | medium |
| decoding speed (play) | medium | fast | medium |
| Compression * | 54.70% | 58.50% | 56.30% |
| Flexible settings ** | great | bad | bad |
| Error control | yes they are | yes they are | |
| Search (Seeking) | yes they are | yes they are | yes they are |
| Teggirovanie | ID3/APE | Quicktime | ASF |
| The prevalence of iron | no | good | limited |
| software distribution | medium | bad | good |
| Hybrid/lossy | yes they are | no | no |
| Replay Gain | yes they are | sort of | no |
| RIFF chunks | yes they are | no | |
| Streaming | yes they are | yes they are | yes they are |
| Pipe support | yes they are | no | yes they are |
| open codec (Open source) | no | yes they are (for playing back) | no |
| multipathing | no | yes they are | yes they are |
| A high resolution | yes they are | yes they are | yes they are |
| Supported Operating Systems | Win/Mac/Linux | Win/Mac | Win/Mac |
Continuation:
| Capabilities | Shorten | THE | TTA |
| Coding rate | very fast | slow | very fast |
| decoding speed (play) | very fast | slow | fast |
| Compression * | 63.50% | 53.50% | 57.10% |
| Flexible settings ** | bad | medium | bad |
| Error control | no | no | yes they are |
| Search (Seeking) | yes they are | yes they are | yes they are |
| Teggirovanie | no | ID3v1 | ID3 |
| The prevalence of iron | limited | no | limited |
| software distribution | great | bad | medium |
| Hybrid/lossy | no | no | no |
| Replay Gain | no | no | yes they are |
| RIFF chunks | yes they are | yes they are | no |
| Streaming | no | no | |
| Pipe support | yes they are | yes they are | no |
| open codec (Open source) | yes they are | no | yes they are |
| multipathing | no | no | yes they are |
| A high resolution | no | no | yes they are |
| Supported Operating Systems | All | Win/Linux | All |
| Capabilities | LPAC | MPEG-4 ALS | MPEG-4 SLS | Real Lossless |
| Coding rate | medium | medium | slow | slow |
| decoding speed (play) | fast | fast | slow | fast |
| Compression * | 57.20% | 57.10% | no data | 57.0% |
| Flexible settings ** | bad | great | bad | bad |
| Error control | no | yes they are | yes they are | |
| Search (Seeking) | slow | yes they are | yes they are | yes they are |
| Teggirovanie | no | yes they are | yes they are | closed format |
| The prevalence of iron | no | no | no | no |
| software distribution | medium | bad | bad | bad |
| Hybrid/lossy | no | no | yes they are | no |
| Replay Gain | no | yes they are | yes they are | no |
| RIFF chunks | yes they are | |||
| Streaming | no | yes they are | yes they are | yes they are |
| Pipe support | no | |||
| open codec (Open source) | no | yes they are | yes they are | no |
| multipathing | no | yes they are | yes they are | no |
| A high resolution | yes they are | yes they are | yes they are | no |
| Supported Operating Systems | Win /Linux /Solaris | All | All | Win / Mac / Linux |
Explanations
Compression is considered as a compressed file size ratio for uncompressed, in percentages. Чем меньше – тем лучше. Coding rate, decoding speed (play) and compression obtained by SETUP codecs by default. In zavismosti of codec settings can usually be improved some parameters at the expense of other.
Гибкость настроек – предлагаемые пользователю опции при кодировании (fast compression with a smaller percentage of compression, a greater percentage of compression at a slow coding and intermediate values).
Many of these formats I do not even know, the other I do not use, I made in such general conclusion:
The first place belongs by right codec WavPack, then I think second place will give the codec FLAC its compatibility and support of old iron, to say about Monkey’s Audio(otherwise gvooryu APE format) — лучше компрессия, no error checking and compatibility bad, if FLAC reproduced without various additional plugins, then EPA нужен plugin.
What can I say about Apple Lossless — такой же как FLAC, but for another platform.
Source: http://www.lossless.ru/faq/lossless-codec-comparison/
