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Which Loseless Codec is the best?

Poll: Which Loseless Codec is the best? (16 member(s) have cast votes)

Which Loseless Codec is the best?

Wavpack (3 votes [23.08%])
Percentage of vote: 23.08%
Flac (7 votes [53.85%])
Percentage of vote: 53.85%
OptimFrog (1 votes [7.69%])
Percentage of vote: 7.69%
ALAC (0 votes [0.00%])
Percentage of vote: 0.00%
Monkey Audio (2 votes [15.38%])
Percentage of vote: 15.38%

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#1 keytotime

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Posted 18 December 2005 - 08:04 PM

So which loseless encoder is the best. I personally use wavpack.

#2 DigeratiPrime

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Posted 18 December 2005 - 08:39 PM

hmm I voted for FLAC because thats what I've been using for a while. But I will check out Wavpack. Im not sure i like the idea of lossy/hybrid compression though. Either way it seems these two are the only good choices

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavpack
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?ti...less_comparison

#3 keytotime

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Posted 19 December 2005 - 08:15 PM

Wavpack is loseless, it has an option to do hybrib compression.

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Posted 20 December 2005 - 02:20 AM

WavPack, it has no cons and with the last encoder it finally has working ReplayGain!, sweet. Time to reencode all those monkeys.

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Posted 20 December 2005 - 07:56 AM

If they are all "lossless", then surely, by definition, it doesn't matter which one you use?

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Posted 20 December 2005 - 02:56 PM

from my research i gather that
FLAC encodes and decodes faster than WavPack.
The Lowest And Highest Encode setting in FLAC makes little difference.
WavPack achieves slightly better compression than FLAC.
WavPack also has a few more features and better support.

Would others agree or disagree?

#7 EchoNoise

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Posted 20 December 2005 - 06:04 PM

I put all my bets on FLAC

#8 Fox Mulder

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Posted 21 December 2005 - 02:38 AM

FAT64, on Dec 20 2005, 10:56 AM, said:

If they are all "lossless", then surely, by definition, it doesn't matter which one you use?

ARJ for DOS, and the latest WinRAR pack files; now what would you choose? OK, maybe I exagerated, but some features make great difference to a user.

#9 keytotime

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Posted 24 December 2005 - 09:12 PM

There are a lot of difference's. File size, encoding decoding time and software support.

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Posted 29 December 2005 - 12:17 AM

FLAC, I guess. I have a friend who is as picky about audio as I am about video. Too bad I don't have a working FireWire port on my DVC or the patience to script with AviSynth... oh well...