Monkey's Audio 4.02 final
Reply #4 – 2009-01-20 17:03:18
That's great news! In my personal opinion I don't see any reason why I shoud use FLAC instead of Monkeys Audio when looking at these figures from synthetic soul's lossless comparioson:Encoder Setting Original Compressed Duration Compression Time Rate Time Rate Monkey's Audio Extra High 2030.59 MiB 1280.54 MiB 03:18:21.240 63.062% 00:09:18 21x 00:09:30 21x TAK -p4m 2030.59 MiB 1290.33 MiB 03:18:21.240 63.544% 00:14:01 14x 00:01:54 104x FLAC -8 -Ax2 2030.59 MiB 1328.08 MiB 03:18:21.240 65.404% 00:16:39 12x 00:01:35 125x Monkeys has the highest compression amongst these three codecs with the highest compression speed of the three. The application works flawlessly - I'm compressing using 4 threads so the compression is very fast. I use Monkeys for backup and also use it for playback on my Media Center PC - MediaPortal software plays back Monkeys audio natively without the need to install any codec. On mobile devices I use mp3 anyway. I can always verify the integity of the files because Monkeys stores the md5 checksum. Well TAK would be an alternative (only 0,5% less compression) but due the closed source and the limited support in different playback software it is not an option for the moment. Decompression speed does not matter for me nor do I have problems with seeking. So for me personally it's my lossless codec of choise. I do not understand all the hype about FLAC.