RareWares

Lossless formats

Lossless compression formats are like a zip compressor, but specifically tuned for audio: you get the exact same audio quality of the input file in the output file. The difference with zip is that these specific codecs tend to compress much better than general purpose compressors.

WavPack V.4.32

2006-11-03

WavPack is a high quality and featureful lossless and lossy codec. Static compiles for several *nix platforms by rjamorim. All packs include WavPack, WvUnpack and WvGain.

(get Windows binaries at the official site - www.wavpack.com)

WavPack directshow filter

2005-04-19

WavPack decoder for DirectShow players - by the CoreCodec team. v.1.0.3

Download (95kB)

TAK Lossless codec v1.0

2007-01-30

TAK is a novel lossless compressor developed by Thomas Becker that achieves near-Monkey's Audio "High" compression with near-FLAC decompression speed. Worth checking out. Only command line encoder and decoder available ATM. Includes a GUI frontend.

Download (522kB)

Apple Lossless decoders v0.1.3

2006-10-26

Compiles of the reverse-engineered Apple Lossless (ALAC) decoder v0.1.3.

Generic Win32 compile (28kB) - by John33
P4 Win32 compile (29kB) - by John33
MacOS PowerPC compile (13kB) - by Solaris

TTA plugin for foobar2000 0.9

2006-05-04

An unofficial TTA plugin for foobar2000 created by Ayana (aka TgayananII) and with readme translated to english by Liisachan

Download (120kB)

DSP-Worx APE directshow filter

2005-11-12

Monkey's Audio decoder for DirectShow players - by the DSP-Worx team. v.1.0

Download (368kB)

RadLight APE directshow filter

2004-06-05

Monkey's Audio decoder for DirectShow players - by the RadLight team. v.1.0.0.4 (it doesn't work on Win9x due to Unicode compatibility issues. You can use DSP-worx's filter in Win9x - just look at the entry above)