Lossless CODEC Recomendations . . . . . (was: Re: [tlug] [C&C] AAC is lossy, FLAC is lossless)

[jep200404 <jep200404@example.com>]

Josh wrote: 

> What lossless codec would people recommend for audio? 

I don't have any recommendations. Bobulous does: 
http://www.bobulous.org.uk/misc/lossless_audio_2006.html

By the way, Centos 5 rips to FLAC by default. 

Heap o' links: 

Free, Open Source: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC
   http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html#hardware
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WavPack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TTA_(codec)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorten (semi-free) maybe moot by neglect

Misc: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_data_compression#Lossless_audio_compression
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_data_compression#Audio_compression
http://www.losslessaudioblog.com/

Proprietary: (not even mentioning some obvious ones)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey's_Audio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_Lossless_Packing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_TrueHD (based on Meridian Lossless Packing)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Lossless_Coding      ????
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Stream_Transfer     ?

Jim