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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
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)
References
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