A decoder plugin for TAK (Tom's lossless audio codec)

[lump1]

I'm so impressed with the performance of TAK that I've started ripping my disks in TAK and converting some of my inferior lossless files to TAK. With Spoon's kind help I wrote a pretty decent GUI for use with dMC's CLI encoder. Now what's needed is for dMC to be able to decode TAKs and understand and pass the tags. (For now I use MP3TAG, which works flawlessly with TAKs.)

I know it's probably not a high priority to support TAK with a decoder plugin, but I think it might be reasonably easy. TAK uses the familiar APEv2 tags and Tom has published an SDK in the link below.

Zip file with a GUI tool, CLI tool and TAK software development kit.

Since dMC supports many obscure and rarely-used codecs like OptimFrog with plugins, I think it would make sense to also support what in my testing has been the best performing lossless codec out there.

[AshenSugar]

.ofr(optimafrog) format isnt that rare really, its very popular in some countrys, china for example, and from my current tests, its got the best lossless compression ratio when you set it to max compression(megs smaller then flac at its best for example)

not saying it wouldnt be nice to have a TAK decoder built in, but shouldnt you beable to use the dshow filter plugin to support TAK?

[Dr. Oviri]

Originally Posted by lump1

TAK uses the familiar APEv2 tags and Tom has published an SDK in the link below.

...I think it would make sense to also support what in my testing has been the best performing lossless codec out there.

I agree. TAK is a great LOSSLESS.

Thomas not Tom.

[sundance]

Sorry to dig out this old thread,
but I would like to second that having a TAK decoder plugin for dMC would be great!

.sundance.