TAK (audio codec)
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Tom’s verlustfreier Audiokompressor (TAK, German for Tom’s lossless audio compressor, he also calls it Tom’s lossless Audio Kompressor sometimes) is a lossless audio compressor which promises compression performance similar to Monkey’s Audio “High†and decompression speed similar to FLAC. The codec also supports streaming (necessary headers for decompressing the audio are written to the stream every 2 seconds), error tolerance (single bit error will never affect more than 250 ms) and detection with checksums in compressed audio streams. While the basic format is ready and safe to use, many features such as internal tagging, playback support for other players are yet to be implemented.
The reference implementation are two Windows applications – one with graphical and one with command line interface – currently written in Pascal with Assembler optimizations.
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The current reference binary offers six presets with different levels of complexity (“Turboâ€, “Fastâ€, “Normalâ€, “Highâ€, “Extra†and “Insaneâ€) that can be combined with two levels of extra evaluation (“Extra†and “Maxâ€) for some additional compression sacrificing only compression time.
As of 1.0.3 there is piping support for encoding.
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[edit] Future Features
[edit] Software that support TAK
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The “Insane†preset with “Maximum†switch gives the best compression TAK can deliver (takc -e -p5m [input file]); fastest compression is obtained with “Turbo†preset (takc -e -0 [input file]).
APEv2 should be used as tagging scheme (will be used as internal tagging).
