Tom’s lossless Audio Kompressor (TAK) is a lossless audio compressor which promises compression performance similar to Monkey’s Audio “High” and decompression speed similar to FLAC. The program supports a lot of new changes and additions that include the following; support for multi-channel audio (while the stream format supports up to 16 channels, the codec is currently restricted to a maximum of 6 channels), support for the Wave Format Extensible file format, the wave file writer didn’t add an optional zero byte to make the audio data chunk size a multiple of 2. This was only relevant when decoding mono audio with 8- or 24-bit samples without restoring the wave meta data, decoding speed improvements of up to 18 percent for my primary file set. Some of it is attributed to the above-noted modification of the encoder’s predictor order selection algorithm, and many more.

TAK is a freeware application, is compatible with the following operating systems; Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. TAK Encoding speed improvements of up to 10 percent for my primary file set; which means that most of it is achieved by a modification of the algorithm which selects the optimal predictor order for each sub-frame.

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