RealityMAX
WavPack
Opus Interactive Audio Codec
Vorbis
LAME
LameXP
Monkey's Audio (.APE)
LameDropXPd
K-Lite Codec Pack
FLAC
Opus Interactive Audio Codec
Vorbis
LAME
Matroska
LameXP
Monkey's Audio (.APE)
LameDropXPd
WavPackBased on our record, FLAC seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 6 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
The Xiph.org foundation maintains FLAC and they have a list of tools that might be helpful. Source: 11 months ago
Lastly, ALAC hasn't been updated by apple since 2016. FLAC is actively maintained by xiph.org and saw its last update this past October. Source: about 1 year ago
Excessive licensing costs weren’t the only concern surrounding MQA though. MQA is touted as being DRM free, with audio streams able to be stored in the very popular, open source FLAC format. Only the lower resolution 16-bit audio is truly DRM free however. MQA’s authentication watermarking must be present in the file, and properly validated at playback, otherwise MQA decoders will refuse to unfold the audio to... Source: over 1 year ago
FLAC continues to be actively maintained and updated. Which, actually thanks for asking your question because in checking sources I noticed FLAC was just updated not two weeks ago. I thik the last time I updated my encoder libraries was after MP3 lost patent protection and dropped licensing a few years ago, so this is fortuitous timing! Anyways, FLAC continues to be meaningfully updated (homepage @ xiph and the... Source: over 1 year ago
There are lossless audio compression standards such as FLAC. Source: over 2 years ago
Opus Interactive Audio Codec - Opus is a totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec.
Vorbis - Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality...
LAME - LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL.
LameXP - LameXP is an Audio Encoder Front-End, a graphical user-interface for a number of audio encoders.
Matroska - The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can...
Monkey's Audio (.APE) - 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.