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, but higher performance than MPEG-1/2 audio layer 3, MPEG-4 audio (TwinVQ), WMA and PAC.
Opus is a totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec. Opus is unmatched for interactive speech and music transmi ...
»TAK – [T]om’s lossless [a]udio [k]ompressor / [T]oms verlustfreier [A]udio[k]ompressor – is, as the name already suggests, a ...
The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number o ...
Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music. ...
LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL. It is considered the best MP3 encoder at mi ...
Nero AAC reference quality MPEG-4 and 3GPP audio codec
WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless, high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression ...
Speex is a patent-free audio compression format designed for speech and also a free software speech codec that may be used on ...
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in F ...