True Audio (TTA) is a
lossless compressor for multichannel 8, 16 and 24 bits audio data.
.tta is the
extension
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to
filename
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s of audio files created by the True Audio codec.
Codec overview
True Audio
compresses up to 30% of the original, broadly similar to
FLAC
FLAC (; Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and is also the name of the free software project producing the FLAC tools, the reference softwa ...
and
APE. It features a real-time encoding and decoding
algorithm
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and hardware compression support. As with most other lossless codecs,
plugins are available for most media players.
TTA performs
lossless compression on multichannel 8, 16 and 24
bit data of uncompressed
wav input files. The term "lossless" refers to the fact that such compression results in no data or quality loss; when decompressed, the audio file data are bit-identical to those of their originals. Compression ratios achieved by the TTA codec vary, depending on music type, but range from 30% to 70% of the original. The TTA lossless compressed audio format supports both
ID3v1
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/
ID3v2
ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and other information about the file to be stored in the file itself.
There are tw ...
information tags and
APEv2.
The TTA lossless audio codec allows for the storage of up to 20 audio
CDs worth of music on a single
DVD-R
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, retaining the original
CD quality audio, plus detailed information in the
ID3 tag format.
All TTA source code and binaries are freely available and distributed under
GPL Open Source licenses.
Software support
Listed below is software that has TTA format support:
Hardware support
Audio players that run
Rockbox support TTA.
See also
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Lossless data compression
Lossless compression is a class of data compression that allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data with no loss of information. Lossless compression is possible because most real-world data exhibits statistic ...
*
Lossy data compression
In information technology, lossy compression or irreversible compression is the class of data compression methods that uses inexact approximations and partial data discarding to represent the content. These techniques are used to reduce data siz ...
*
Audio data compression
In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. Any particular compression is either lossy or lossless. Lossless compressi ...
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Comparison of audio coding formats
The following tables compare general and technical information for a variety of audio coding formats.
For listening tests comparing the perceived audio quality of audio formats and codecs, see the article Codec listening test.
General informati ...
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Meridian Lossless Packing
Meridian Lossless Packing, also known as Packed PCM (PPCM), is a lossless compression technique for PCM audio data developed by Meridian Audio, Ltd. MLP is the standard lossless compression method for DVD-Audio content (often advertised with t ...
References
External links
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Project @ Sourceforge.Net
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