Vorbis!

* A format specification and related documentation doc are available on this site. * The **libvorbis** reference implementation provides both a standard encoder and decoder under a BSD license. Source download http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/]
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Vorbis alternatives

  • Matroska

  • 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. It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows.

    tags: audio-and-video-codecs audio-codec decoder encoder lossless-compression
  • Opus Interactive Audio Codec

  • Opus is a totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec. Opus is unmatched for interactive speech and music transmission over the Internet, but also intended for storage and streaming applications. It is standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as RFC 6716 which incorporated technology from Skype's SILK codec and Xiph.Org's CELT codec.

    tags: audio-codec ietf
  • WavPack

  • 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 unparalleled performance and functionality.

    tags: audio-codec decoder encoder hybrid-codec lossless-compression
  • Speex

  • 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.

    tags: audio-compression
  • Nero AAC Codec

  • Nero AAC reference quality MPEG-4 and 3GPP audio codec

    tags: command-line-interface aac m4a audio-codec aacplus
  • Apple Lossless

  • Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music.

    tags: audio-codec lossless-compression
  • TAK

  • »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. On average, lossless compression reduces the file size to about 50 percent of the original size; however the compression can vary between approximately 30 and 70 percent, depending on the file. Decompression restores a bit identical copy of the original audio data (that's why we call it lossless). »

    tags: archival audio-codec decoder encoder lossless