Therefore i am very interested into compression results and comparisons with other codecs.
I have done some testing:
Chris Rea_test (Driving Home For Christmas sample)
WAV (16bit 44.1KHz, 11.733s) 1411Kbps, 2021.23KB, 100%
FLAC 1.2.1 [-8] 861Kbps, 1233.17KB, 61.01%
TTA 3.4.1 [-e] 852Kbps, 1220.10KB, 60.36%
WavPack 4.60.1 [-hhx] 837Kbps, 1199.49KB, 59.34%
TAK 2.0.0 [-e -p4m] 812Kbps, 1163.19KB, 57.55%
TAK 2.1.0 [-e -p4m] 812Kbps, 1163.02KB, 57.54%
TAK 2.2.0 [-e -p4m] 812Kbps, 1163.10KB, 57.54%
Monkey's Audio 4.10 [-c3000] 819Kbps, 1172.99KB, 58.03%
Monkey's Audio 4.10 [-c4000] 804Kbps, 1151.77KB, 56.98%
Monkey's Audio 4.10 [-c5000] 796Kbps, 1140.78KB, 56.44%
OptimFROG 4.600ex [--encode --mode bestnew --seek min --optimize best] 791Kbps, 1133.00KB, 56.05%
OptimFROG 4.910b [--encode --mode bestnew --seek min --optimize best] 790Kbps, 1131.81KB, 56.00%
OptimFROG 4.600ex [--maximumcompression --experimental] (decode error!) 788Kbps, 1129.07KB, 55.86%
OptimFROG 4.910b [--maximumcompression --experimental] (±55% cpu lol!) 787Kbps, 1127.71KB, 55.79%
LA 0.4b [-high] 790Kbps, 1130.99KB, 55.96%
Gladiator Soundtrack
WAV (16bit 44.1KHz, 1h:01m:38.293s) 1411Kbps, 637088.86KB (622.16MB), 100%
FLAC 1.2.1 [--best] 706Kbps, 318757.12KB (311.29MB), 50.03%
WavPack 4.60.1 [-hhx] 702Kbps, 317369.66KB (309.93MB), 49.82%
TAK 2.1.0 [-e -p4m] 684Kbps, 308839.48KB (301.60MB), 48.48%
TAK 2.2.0 [-e -p4m] 684Kbps, 308865.17KB (301.63MB), 48.48%
Monkey's Audio 4.10 [-c3000] 687Kbps, 310348.86KB (303.08MB), 48.71%
Monkey's Audio 4.10 [-c4000] 680Kbps, 307066.54KB (299.87MB), 48.20%
Monkey's Audio 4.10 [-c5000] 676Kbps, 305098.90KB (297.95MB), 47.89%
Angra - Temple of Shadows
WAV (16bit 44.1KHz, 1h:06m:34.533s) 1411Kbps, 688120.82KB (671.99MB), 100%
FLAC 1.2.1 [--best] 986Kbps, 480797.87KB (469.53MB), 69.87%
WavPack 4.60.1 [-hhx] 971Kbps, 473486.58KB (462.39MB), 68.81%
TAK 2.1.0 [-e -p4m] 957Kbps, 466692.68KB (455.75MB), 67.82%
TAK 2.2.0 [-e -p4m] 957Kbps, 466720.24KB (455.78MB), 67.83%
Monkey's Audio 4.10 [-c3000] 960Kbps, 468348.68KB (457.37MB), 68.06%
Monkey's Audio 4.10 [-c4000] 952Kbps, 464030.97KB (453.16MB), 67.43%
Monkey's Audio 4.10 [-c5000] 948Kbps, 462497.08KB (451.66MB), 67.21%
LA 0.4b [-high] 939Kbps, 457720.45KB (446.99MB), 66.52%
Royal Hunt - Paper Blood
WAV (16bit 44.1KHz, 56m:51.027s) 1411Kbps, 587602.68KB (573.83MB), 100%
FLAC 1.2.1 [--best] 1097Kbps, 456942.46KB (446.23MB), 77.76%
WavPack 4.60.1 [-hhx] 1089Kbps, 453645.32KB (443.01MB), 77.20%
TAK 2.1.0 [-e -p4m] 1082Kbps, 450697.51KB (440.13MB), 76.70%
TAK 2.2.0 [-e -p4m] 1083Kbps, 450738.92KB (440.17MB), 76.71%
Monkey's Audio 4.10 [-c3000] 1081Kbps, 449852.87KB (439.31MB), 76.56%
Monkey's Audio 4.10 [-c4000] 1078Kbps, 448739.60KB (438.22MB), 76.37%
Monkey's Audio 4.10 [-c5000] 1075Kbps, 447681.16KB (437.19MB), 76.19%
...what may on average result in about 0.01 percent worse compression.
I come to the same conclusion, although I would've loved seeing some more compression strength. The codec is already fast enough imho.
One funny detail about about my results; TAK -e -p4m beats Monkey's Audio 'High' in all cases except the last one (1082 vs 1081Kbps). Although my lossless collection is still rather small, Paper Blood appeared to be the hardest to compress.
The inclusion of the cuesheet should already work, although not with the '*' placeholder:
-tt # Add textual tag item #, where # is a key/value pair: "key=value",
for instance "TITLE=A nice song". "key=@file" will read the value
from the text(!) file "file" in the source directory.
Takc.exe -e -p4m -tt "Cuesheet=@filename.cue" <infile> <outfile.tak> doesn't work. Neither when I include the full directory path.
"Command line error: Error reading tag file" is what I get.