TAK is described as '»TAK – [T]om’s lossless [a]udio [k]ompressor / [T]oms verlustfreier [A]udio[k]ompressor – is, as the name already suggests, a lossless audio compressor, similar to FLAC, WavPack and Monkey’s Audio' and is a Audio Codec in the audio & music category. There are nine alternatives to TAK for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Haiku apps. The best TAK alternative is FLAC, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TAK are Vorbis, Matroska, Apple Lossless and WavPack.
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed...
Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality (8kHz-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel.
The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture, or subtitle tracks in one file.
Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music.
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...
Monkey’s Audio makes perfect, bit-for-bit copies of your music, exactly the same as the original. You can decompress your lossless .APE files back to the original files. Think of it as a beefed-up Winzip™ to perfectly recreate the original music CD.
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Speex is a patent-free audio compression format designed for speech and also a free software speech codec that may be used on VoIP applications and podcasts.
[No longer maintained, but downloadable] FLAC Frontend is a Windows GUI (Graphical User Interface) for FLAC. Windows users are used to graphical programs (Rather than a command line). That's why Speek made FLAC frontend. The frontend only makes a batch file for flac.exe an.
Shamrock Soft developed and published first free Windows Phone player which plays exclusively flac files.
