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Looking for Lossless Audio File Compressions Software

Post by drliebs » Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:29 am

Hi TapeOp gang,

I am constantly transferring project files across the internet and I am looking for a good file compression program that works well with audio files. Not to be confused with a compressor, those are a lot more fun ;)
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Post by jwnc » Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:55 pm

If you are PC this is the best one.. been using it for years.

http://www.monkeysaudio.com/
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Post by Babaluma » Tue Dec 15, 2009 2:59 am

i use flac if i am forced to compress files. i usually just send rar'd or zip'd .wav or .aif files. rar compresses more, but both conatin error checking.

i've heard flac might not be 100% lossless.
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Post by drliebs » Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:09 am

I should have used a different word than compression, I am looking for an archive tool like winrar or stuffit, but I thought I read somewhere that they either didn't change the file size much or could lose audio data; does that sound right?
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Post by ott0bot » Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:19 am

I haven't found any problem with archiving with .rar files. I'm a mac user, but if you use windows check out the archiving programs on this site and see if any of them work for you.
http://www.digitaldarknet.net/thelist/

hit ctrl F and type archive to search.
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Post by austingreen » Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:42 am

Babaluma wrote:i've heard flac might not be 100% lossless.
I've not heard that, has anybody else?

http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html#ge ... less_trust
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Post by darjama » Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:41 am

No problem with FLAC files being lossy in any way AFAIK. Best part for me is that Reaper can read/record them without conversion. But I do use .rar archives as well.
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Post by casey campbell » Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:33 pm

"switch" for mac is pretty good as well.
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Post by ott0bot » Thu Dec 17, 2009 1:13 pm

casey campbell wrote:"switch" for mac is pretty good as well.
Thats actually what I use too, but on another FLAC thread people were saying it wasn't so good. I disagree, I think it's great. Maybe not amazing for mp3's, but I can't imagine it causing a problem when compressing to a .rar or .zip.
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Post by casey campbell » Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:15 am

you know, the .mp3 conversion in "switch" isn't all that bad. i don't experience any of that swooshy high end that other converters do.
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