TAK (audio codec)
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| Developer(s) | Thomas Becker |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2.3.1
/ March 28, 2021 |
| Engine | |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Type | Codec |
| License | freeware |
| Website | thbeck |
Search TAK (audio codec) on Amazon.TAK (Tom's lossless Audio Kompressor) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by Thomas Becker.
The TAK project includes a reference codec implementation (in the form of a command-line application as well as a GUI application), a Winamp plugin, the SDK, and the decoding library.
Features[edit]
- Lossless compression
- Fast compression and decompression speed
- Streaming support (necessary headers for decompressing the audio are written to the stream every 2 seconds)
- Piping support for encoding
- Error tolerance (single bit error will never affect more than 250 ms)
- Error detection (each frame protected by a 24-bit checksum (CRC))
- High-resolution (up to 24-bit/channel) audio support
- Support for up to 192 Khz Audio
- Seeking without seek table
- APEv2 tags supported at end of file
Software support[edit]
Windows[edit]
- LAV Filters
- VLC Media Player (since version 2.2.0)
- MPC-BE
- Mp3tag
- shntool (since version 3.0.6)
- MusicBrainz Picard (since version 0.11)
Linux[edit]
- FFmpeg can demux, decode and parse TAK since release 1.1
- The GUI program (Tak.exe) and the command-line program (Takc.exe) work with Wine.[1]
- MusicBrainz Picard (since version 0.11)
References[edit]
- ↑ "WineHQ - Tak Lossless Audio 1.1.0". appdb.winehq.org. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
External links[edit]
- Official Website (German)
- wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=TAK – Hydrogenaudio Wiki page
- flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html – comparison with other lossless codecs
- www.synthetic-soul.co.uk/comparison/lossless Archived – other comparison with lossless codecs
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