Top 15 TAK Alternative and Similar Softwares | May 2024

»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). ...

1. WavPack

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.WavPack features include:- Compatible......

2. LAME

LAME LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL. It is considered the best MP3 encoder at mid-high bitrates and at VBR. Both quality and speed improvements are still happening, probably making LAME the only MP3 encoder still being actively developed.Mike Cheng started it......

3. Vorbis

Vorbis 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. This places Vorbis in the same competitive class as audio representations such as MPEG-4 (AAC), and similar to,......

4. Vox Music Player

Vox Music Player It just sounds better! The beauty is in its simplicity, yet behind the minimal exterior lies a powerful music player with a ton of features & support for all audio formats you should ever need.VOX was originally developed following the principles of clarity, simplicity and versatility. Thus, the minimalistic interface......

5. Matroska

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.......

6. Colibri Lossless

Colibri Lossless Colibri supports cristal-clear bit-perfect playback of all popular lossless and lossy audio formats, uses only a tiny amount of computing power and offers a clean and intuitive user experience.Saves your battery - Colibri uses a barely noticable amount of computing power during playback your music.Plays your audio - Colibri is......

7. Play

Play Play is an application for playing and managing audio files.Play currently supports playback of FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Musepack, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, AAC, Apple Lossless, MP3 and various other audio file formats.For lossless formats such as FLAC and WavPack, and for Ogg Vorbis and specially-tagged MP3 files, Play supports gapless playback......

8. oggdropXPd

oggdropXPd oggdropXPd is a drag-and-drop Ogg Vorbis encoder/decoder/player for the eXPerienced user. Features include compression from lossless files (Monkeys Audio, LPAC, FLAC, WAVPACK and OptimFROG), auto-tagging, renaming of encoded files, setting of advanced encoder parameters, use of VorbisGain tags on decode, playlist (.m3u) creation, and others.Version 1.8.7 introduced correct channel mapping......

9. Opus Interactive Audio Codec

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......

10. FLAC

FLAC 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 specifically for audio,......

11. gCue2Tracks

gCue2Tracks Tool for spliting compressed audio CD image to tracks with filling tags from cue sheet info.Decompression of all formats supported by ffmpeg(flac,ape,wv,tta...). For more details see:ffmpeg -formatsin the console.Encoding formats:wav : no encode, raw sound wave,flac : (default) Free Lossless Audio Codec,ape : Monkey's Audio Codec,wv : WavPack,mp3 : mpeg......

12. Leawo Music Recorder

Leawo Music Recorder Leawo Music Recorder is the best audio recording software which can record music and audio easily on Windows 8. It is also an online audio recorder that could record audio of various online music sources like YouTube, AOL Music, Last.fm, etc. * Expect Lossless QualityWhatever it is, as long as......

13. ALL2LAME

ALL2LAME [No longer maintained, but downloadable] ALL2LAME is a free Windows front-end for the LAME MP3 encoder. It's very easy to use: 1. Choose the files you want to encode. 2. Set the LAME switches. 3. Press the Encode button. That's all there is to it :-)ALL2LAME is pretty useless without......

14. LameDropXPd

LameDropXPd LameDropXPd is a practical frontend for LAME that makes things easier to the user, as there is no need to know about command line usage: most LAME settings are reachable on a graphical interface. Besides encoding WAV files to MP3, it can transcode Ogg Vorbis files, decode MP3 files to......

15. Apple Lossless

Apple Lossless Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music.Apple Lossless data is stored within an MP4 container with the filename extension .m4a – this extension is also used by Apple for AAC audio data in an MP4 container......