Software:TAK (audio codec)

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Tom's lossless Audio Kompressor

Developer(s)	Thomas Becker
Stable release	2.3.1 / March 28, 2021 (2021-03-28)
Operating system	Windows
Type	Codec
License	freeware
Website	thbeck.de/Tak/Tak.html

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.
• MusicBrainz Picard (since version 0.11)

External links

• Official Website (German)
• wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=TAK – Hydrogenaudio Wiki page
• flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html – comparison with other lossless codecs
• www.synthetic-soul.co.uk/comparison/lossless Archived – other comparison with lossless codecs