Monkey's Audio Codec is a lossless audio codec with good correspondence of
compression (and decompression) ratio and time. Monkey's Audio Codec can
be used for personal, educational and non-commercial purposes. Commercial
usage requires prior written permission from Monkey's Audio author.
This is community-maintained Unix port of earlier Monkey's Audio sources;
it does not correspond to current official SDK releases (4.x).
The Network Audio System is designed for playing,
recording, and manipulating audio data over a network.
Like the X Window System, it uses the client/server model to
separate applications from the specific drivers that control
audio input and output devices.
shntool is a multi-purpose WAVE data processing and reporting utility.
File formats are abstracted from its core, so it can process any file
that contains WAVE data, compressed or not -- provided there exists a
format module to handle that particular file type.
Apart from .wav shntool supports many formats through helper programs.
Please see the manual page for more information.
Speex is an Open Source/Free Software patent-free audio compression
format designed for speech.
TTA performs lossless compression on multichannel 8, 16, and 24 bits data of
the Wav audio files. Being "lossless" means that no data quality is lost in
the compression -- when uncompressed, all the data will be identical to the
original. The compression ratios of TTA depend on the type of music files
being compressed, but the compression size will generally range between 30%
and 70% of the original. TTA format supports both of ID3v1/2 and APEv2 tags.
TwoLAME is an optimized MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoder
It is based heavily on:
- tooLAME by Michael Cheng
- the ISO dist10 code
- improvement to algorithms as part of the LAME project (lame.sf.net)
WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless,
high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode. Although the
technology is loosely based on previous versions of WavPack, the new version
4 format has been designed from the ground up to offer unparalleled
performance and functionality.
In the default lossless mode WavPack acts just like a WinZip compressor for
audio files. However, unlike MP3 or WMA encoding which can affect the sound
quality, not a single bit of the original information is lost, so there's no
chance of degradation. This makes lossless mode ideal for archiving audio
material or any other situation where quality is paramount. The compression
ratio depends on the source material, but generally is between 30% and 70%
(generally lower for typical popular music and somewhat better for classical
music and other sources with greater dynamic range).
The hybrid mode provides all the advantages of lossless compression with an
additional bonus. Instead of creating a single file, this mode creates both
a relatively small, high-quality lossy file that can be used all by itself,
and a "correction" file that (when combined with the lossy file) provides
full lossless restoration. For some users this means never having to choose
between lossless and lossy compression!