Wikipedia:TAK (audio codec)

TAK (Tom's lossless Audio Kompressor) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by Thomas Becker.

The TAK project includes a reference codec implementation (in the form of a command-line application as well as a GUI application), a Winamp plugin, the SDK, and the decoding library.

Features

 * Lossless compression
 * Fast compression and decompression speed
 * Streaming support (necessary headers for decompressing the audio are written to the stream every 2 seconds)
 * Piping support for encoding
 * Error tolerance (single bit error will never affect more than 250 ms)
 * Error detection (each frame protected by a 24-bit checksum (CRC))
 * High-resolution (up to 24-bit/channel) audio support
 * Support for up to 192 Khz Audio
 * Seeking without seek table
 * APEv2 tags supported at end of file

Windows

 * LAV Filters
 * VLC Media Player (since version 2.2.0)
 * MPC-BE
 * Mp3tag
 * shntool (since version 3.0.6)
 * MusicBrainz Picard (since version 0.11)

Linux

 * FFmpeg can demux, decode and parse TAK since release 1.1
 * The GUI program (Tak.exe) and the command-line program (Takc.exe) work with Wine.
 * MusicBrainz Picard (since version 0.11)