TAK (audio codec)

Tom's lossless Audio Kompressor
Developer(s)	Thomas Becker
Stable release	2.3.1 / March 28, 2021; 4 years ago
Operating system	Windows
Type	Codec
License	freeware
Website	thbeck.de/Tak/Tak.html

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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

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

Windows

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

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)