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Comparison of Lossless codecs

Recently at a jump pondered music, some of the best lossless formats. Found such a plate

CapabilitiesFLACWavPackTAKMonkey's
Coding ratefastvery fastvery fastfast
decoding speed (play)very fastvery fastvery fastmedium
Compression *58.70%58.0%57.0%55.50%
Flexible settings **greatgreatgreatgreat
Error controlyes they areyes they areyes they areno
Search (Seeking)yes they areyes they areyes they areyes they are
TeggirovanieVorbis tagsID3/APEAPEv2 (exp.)ID3/APE
The prevalence of irongreatlimitednolimited
software distributiongreatgoodmediumgood
Hybrid/lossynoyes they arenono
Replay Gainyes they areyes they areyes they areno
RIFF chunksyes they areyes they areyes they are
Streamingyes they areyes they areyes they areno
Pipe supportyes they areyes they areyes they areyes they are
open codec (Open source)yes they areyes they arenoyes they are
multipathingyes they areyes they arenono
A high resolutionyes they areyes they areyes they areyes they are
Supported Operating SystemsAllAllWin/Linux WineAll

CapabilitiesOptimFROGALACWMA lossless
Coding rateslowmediummedium
decoding speed (play)mediumfastmedium
Compression *54.70%58.50%56.30%
Flexible settings **greatbadbad
Error controlyes they areyes they are
Search (Seeking)yes they areyes they areyes they are
TeggirovanieID3/APEQuicktimeASF
The prevalence of ironnogoodlimited
software distributionmediumbadgood
Hybrid/lossyyes they arenono
Replay Gainyes they aresort ofno
RIFF chunksyes they areno
Streamingyes they areyes they areyes they are
Pipe supportyes they arenoyes they are
open codec (Open source)noyes they are (for playing back)no
multipathingnoyes they areyes they are
A high resolutionyes they areyes they areyes they are
Supported Operating SystemsWin/Mac/LinuxWin/MacWin/Mac

Continuation:

CapabilitiesShortenTHETTA
Coding ratevery fastslowvery fast
decoding speed (play)very fastslowfast
Compression *63.50%53.50%57.10%
Flexible settings **badmediumbad
Error controlnonoyes they are
Search (Seeking)yes they areyes they areyes they are
TeggirovanienoID3v1ID3
The prevalence of ironlimitednolimited
software distributiongreatbadmedium
Hybrid/lossynonono
Replay Gainnonoyes they are
RIFF chunksyes they areyes they areno
Streamingnono
Pipe supportyes they areyes they areno
open codec (Open source)yes they arenoyes they are
multipathingnonoyes they are
A high resolutionnonoyes they are
Supported Operating SystemsAllWin/LinuxAll

CapabilitiesLPACMPEG-4 ALSMPEG-4 SLSReal Lossless
Coding ratemediummediumslowslow
decoding speed (play)fastfastslowfast
Compression *57.20%57.10%no data57.0%
Flexible settings **badgreatbadbad
Error controlnoyes they areyes they are
Search (Seeking)slowyes they areyes they areyes they are
Teggirovanienoyes they areyes they areclosed format
The prevalence of ironnononono
software distributionmediumbadbadbad
Hybrid/lossynonoyes they areno
Replay Gainnoyes they areyes they areno
RIFF chunksyes they are
Streamingnoyes they areyes they areyes they are
Pipe supportno
open codec (Open source)noyes they areyes they areno
multipathingnoyes they areyes they areno
A high resolutionyes they areyes they areyes they areno
Supported Operating SystemsWin
/Linux
/Solaris
AllAllWin /
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/

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