This page comparing various lossless audio compression algorithms and programs hasn't changed much since January 2003. I am no longer maintaining it and I suggest that the best place to maintain an up-to-date account of this subject is in the Wikipedia at:
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Lossy and Lossless Compression of Audio ... Investigating the quality of lossy algorithms including MPEG Audio Layer 3 (MP3), AAC and Yamaha's SoundVQ. Back to the First Principles main page - for material on telecommunications, music marketing via ... Lossless audio compression. <<< Completely revised in December 2000.
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Efficient (fast and great compression) – Monkey's Audio is highly optimized and highly efficient ... Perfect sound – absolutely no quality loss, meaning it sounds perfect and decompresses perfect (it's lossless!)
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Audio compression (data) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Audio compression is a form of data compression designed to reduce the transmission bandwidth requirement of digital audio streams and the storage size of audio files. Audio compression algorithms ar...
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When you unZip it however, the entire document is there, right? Not a single letter is missing. Every period is present and accounted for. Lossless codecs are Zip compression specifically designed for audio files.
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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.
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Lossless data compression - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lossless data compression is a class of data compression algorithms that allows the exact original data to be reconstructed from the compressed data. The term lossless is in contrast to lossy data ...
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OptimFROG is a lossless audio compression program. Its main goal is to reduce at maximum the size of audio files, while permitting bit identical restoration for all input. It is similar with the ZIP compression, but it is highly specialized to compress audio data.
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With OptimFROG you obtain asymptotically the best lossless audio compression ratios. OptimFROG IS DISTRIBUTED "AS IS". NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND IS EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. YOU USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK.
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As hard disk sizes increase, the requirement to perform lossy compression on digital audio files is reducing. This article looks at some of the code available to perform lossless compression of WAV files and demonstrates how to encode and decode files in VB using Monkey's Audio Compressor. ... On Lossless Compression...
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