New Features:

- Support for 192 Khz Audio.
- Seeking without seek table.

SDK works fine for me

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Is there any speed penalty in seeking, if I'll won't use a seek table?

Using -sts0 (seek table size = zero) has no noticeable delay whenever I randomly seek within a file.

Using P3 733 with FB2k.

edit: "noticeable delay" meaning comparatively to other audio formats, all seeking on system has small lag

wow.really nice update.30% of my music CDz are backed up in tak format.
so,how could I get my foobar component update for those new feature?

Silly question...

Can TAK re-encode itself off previous TAK version?
Something like takc.exe -e file.tak

I think it's a good question, but it is easy to test, and therefore a lazy question.

I think this would be a welcome addition.  As takc.exe can decode as well as encode I presume it would not be a mammoth task to include.

Any words of a decoder for non-Windows platforms?

It is already possible to add cover art to the APE tags in the TAK files with Mp3tag. Would it be a big effort to add support to read them with the winamp plugin?

I just transcoded 3.84GB (774kbps TAK 1.0.3/1.0.4 -pMax) to 3.84GB (774kbps TAK 1.1.0 -pMax) and saved 1047KB! This sentence may seem sarcastic, but the fact given, that it's actually a weaker setting it's quite impressive, isn't it? I have to try to keep track of the other transcodings, still more than 400GB to go

Quote from: Neasden on 2009-01-10 23:31:50

Silly question...

Can TAK re-encode itself off previous TAK version?
Something like takc.exe -e file.tak

I think it's a good question, but it is easy to test, and therefore a lazy question.

I get "Command line error: invalid file extension" when trying to encode a .tak file.

I think this would be a welcome addition.  As takc.exe can decode as well as encode I presume it would not be a mammoth task to include.

Quote from: Synthetic Soul on 2009-01-13 13:50:09

I think this would be a welcome addition.  As takc.exe can decode as well as encode I presume it would not be a mammoth task to include.

Isn't it possible to pipe the takc output to another instance of takc? It should be possible to run multiple instances?
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It is already possible to add cover art to the APE tags in the TAK files with Mp3tag. Would it be a big effort to add support to read them with the winamp plugin?
then here wouldn't be any disadvantage over the other formats in Winamp.

greetings

Final release of TAK 1.1.0 ((T)om's lossless (A)udio (K)ompressor)

01/15/2009  03:21  31,705,004 p.wav

>t -e p.wav 
p.wav                               ..........  20.85%   21* 

Compression:     20.85 %
Duration:         8.72 sec
Speed:           20.61 * real time

>t -e -pmax p.wav 
p.wav                               ..........  22.73%    4* 

Compression:     22.73 %
Duration:        42.64 sec
Speed:            4.22 * real time

>t -d p.tak 
p.tak                               ..........   51* Ok

Duration:        3.52 sec
Speed:          51.03 * real time

01/15/2009  03:23  6,609,076 pdef.tak
01/15/2009  03:24  7,207,262 p.tak

>t4 -e p.wav  
p.wav                               ..........  20.85%   30* 

Compression:     20.85 %
Duration:         5.92 sec
Speed:           30.36 * real time

>t4 -e -pmax p.wav 
p.wav                               ..........  22.74%    3* 

Compression:     22.74 %
Duration:        68.05 sec
Speed:            2.64 * real time

>t4 -d p.tak 
p.tak                               ..........   29* Ok

Duration:        6.11 sec
Speed:          29.44 * real time

01/15/2009  03:24   6,610,883 pdef.tak
01/15/2009  03:25   7,209,408 p.tak

I tested that when FB2k transcodes TAK to TAK, it will transfer tags but won't transfer embedded cover art and replaygain values.
Is there any way to keep all metadata by using FB2k???

Sadly there are files giving much worse compression with -pmax than default ... problem exists in 1.0.4 already:

Fixed a bug in the encoder that resulted in suboptimal compression of some loud files and especially high resolution audio. Some files may gain about 0.05 percent of compression. Not much, but it comes without any speed penality.