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Old 03-28-2008, 09:08 AM   #2 (permalink)
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My favorite would have to be the WavPack hybrid lossless. That said, I know that FLAC will probably be the most popular lossless codec for a long time.

I performed tests and found that WavPack, even when in hybrid mode (-b2.0 -c -cc -hh), created a smaller set of lossless files than FLAC (1.2.1 @ 8). APE is still the supreme champ at creating small lossless files, but I foresee fading away as development seems to have stopped. WavPack and FLAC will catch up with it, and will one day surpass it.


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I really suggested HA and FB2K (I edited that out) too soon. I just read your reply to my post in The Open-source/Freeware thread, and I don't have to preach.
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