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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/style-base.css"> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/style-turq-orange.css" title="Turquoise n orange"> <link type="text/css" rel="alternate stylesheet" href="css/style-blue-orange.css" title="Blue n orange"> <link type="text/css" rel="alternate stylesheet" href="css/style-red-turq.css" title="Red n turquoise"> <link type="text/css" rel="alternate stylesheet" href="css/style-grey-red.css" title="Grey n red"> <link type="text/css" rel="alternate stylesheet" href="css/style-grey-green.css" title="Grey n green"> <link type="text/css" rel="alternate stylesheet" href="css/style-green-red.css" title="Green n red"> <link type="text/css" rel="alternate stylesheet" href="css/style-orange-turq.css" title="Orange n turquoise"> <link type="text/css" rel="alternate stylesheet" href="css/style-grey-turq.css" title="Grey n turquoise"> <link type="text/css" rel="alternate stylesheet" href="css/.css" title="8"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.png">  <title>RareWares - Lossless codecs</title> <meta name="keywords" content="Audio, Lossless, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, FLAC"> </head> <body>  <div id="headerBox"> <div id="header"> <h1><a href="https://rarewares.org/index.php"><span id="rare">RARE</span>WARES</a></h1> </div> <ul id="topNav"> <li><a href="index.php">Home</a></li> <li><a href="links.php">Links</a></li>  <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/rrw/">ReallyRareWares</a></li> <li><a href="about.php">About</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="subtitle">– Providing hard-to-find pieces of software since 2001-10-21</div>   <div id="leftBlock"> <div id="leftNav"> <h2><a href="">Downloads</a></h2> <p id="welcomeMsgBody">All the latest media utilities.</p> <ul class="makemenu"> <li><a href="mp3.php">MP3</a> <ul> <li><a href="mp3-lame-bundle.php">LAME Bundles</a></li> <li><a href="mp3-lamedrop.php">LameDropXPd</a></li> <li><a href="mp3-lame-dshow-acm.php">LAME DirectShow & ACM Codecs</a></li> <li><a href="mp3-lame-libraries.php">LAME Libraries</a></li> <li><a href="mp3-lamepatches.php">LAME Patches</a></li> <li><a href="mp3-others.php">MP3 & MP2 – Others</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="aac.php">AAC</a> <ul> <li><a href="aac-decoders.php">AAC Decoders</a></li> <li><a href="aac-encoders.php">AAC Encoders and Tools</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="ogg.php">Ogg Vorbis</a> <ul> <li><a href="ogg-oggenc.php">Oggenc</a></li> <li><a href="ogg-oggdropxpd.php">oggdropXPd</a></li> <li><a href="ogg-libraries.php">Ogg Vorbis Libraries</a></li> <li><a href="ogg-oggdec.php">oggdec</a></li> <li><a href="ogg-tools.php">Ogg Vorbis Tools</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="lossless.php">Lossless</a> </li> <li><a href="others.php">Others</a></li> <li><a href="opus.php">Opus</a></li>  </ul> </div> </div>  <div id="mainContent"> <div id="contentHeader"> <h2><a href="">Lossless formats</a></h2> <div class="contentDescription"> <p>Lossless compression formats are like a zip compressor, but specifically tuned for audio: you get the exact same audio quality of the input file in the output file. The difference with zip is that these specific codecs tend to compress much better than general purpose compressors.</p> </div> </div> <div class="item"> <a name="flac-bundle"></a><h3><a href="#flac-bundle">FLAC v1.5.0 Release bundle</a></h3> <span class="itemDate">2025-02-11</span> <p>x64 and win32-nonXP are GCC 14.2.0 compiles, win32 (hopefully XP friendly) is MSVS 2022 compile and includes libFLAC.dll.</p> <ul class="downloadList"> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/flac-1.5.0-x86.zip">win32-nonXP Download (716kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/flac-1.5.0-x86-XP.zip">win32 Download (363kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/flac-1.5.0-x64.zip">x64 Download (620kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/flac-1.5.0-AVX2.zip">x64-AVX2 Download (640kB)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="item"> <a name="libFLAC_dll"></a><h3><a href="#flac-dll">libFLAC v1.5.0 Release</a></h3> <span class="itemDate">2025-02-13</span> <p>Latest Release, libFLAC dll for CDex, etc, MSVS 2022 compiles, win32 compile is (hopefully) XP friendly. Two varieties, functionally identical, to suite the requirements of different applications.</p> <ul class="downloadList"> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/flac_dll-1.5.0-x86.zip">win32 Download (131kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/flac_dll-1.5.0-x64.zip">x64 Download (240kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/flac-dynamic_dll-1.5.0-x86.zip">win32-dynamic Download (132kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/flac-dynamic_dll-1.5.0-x64.zip">x64-dynamic Download (240kB)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="item"> <a name="flake"></a><h3><a href="#flake">flake-r264</a></h3> <span class="itemDate">2023-01-13</span> <p>Flake: FLAC audio encoder<br> The purpose of Flake is to be an alternative to the FLAC reference encoder with the goal of increasing encoding speed and implementing experimental features.<br> Neither the program nor the library have stable interfaces. Therefore, the commandline options and the library API/ABI may change. After version 1.0 is released, this will become more stable.<br> Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Justin Ruggles <justin.ruggles@gmail.com><br> http://flake-enc.sourceforge.net/<br> Most recent GIT flake release. Intel LLVM 2023(Clang 16.0) compiles.</p> <ul class="downloadList"> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/flake-r264-win32.zip">win32 Download (143kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/flake-r264-x64.zip">x64 Download (124kB)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="item"> <a name="wavpack"></a><h3><a href="#wavpack">WavPack-5.5.0-bundle</a></h3> <span class="itemDate">2022-08-15</span> <p>wavpack.exe, wvgain.exe, wvtag.exe and wvunpack.exe. Intel 19.0 compiles for Windows. x86 compiles should be XP friendly.</p> <ul class="downloadList"> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/WavPack-5.5.0-x86-bundle.zip">win32 Download (623kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/WavPack-5.5.0-x64-bundle.zip">x64 Download (738kB)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="item"> <a name="wavpack-old"></a><h3><a href="#wavpack-old">WavPack V.4.32</a></h3> <span class="itemDate">2006-11-03</span> <p>WavPack is a high quality and featureful lossless and lossy codec. Static compiles for several *nix platforms by rjamorim. All packs include WavPack, WvUnpack and WvGain.</p> <p>(get Windows binaries at the official site - <a onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blank');return false;" href="http://www.wavpack.com">www.wavpack.com</a>)</p> <ul class="downloadList"> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/wavpack4.32-Linux-x86.tar.gz">Linux x86 version 4.32 (409kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/wavpack4.32-Linux-ia64.tar.gz">Linux Itanium version 4.32 (554kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/wavpack4.32-Linux-Alpha.tar.gz">Linux Alpha version 4.32 (477kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/wavpack4.32-Linux-POWER.tar.gz">Linux POWER version 4.32 (365kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/wavpack4.32-MacOSX-PPC.dmg.zip">MacOS PowerPC version 4.32 (323kB)</a> - by krmathis</li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/wavpack4.32-Solaris-SPARC.tar.gz">Solaris SPARC version 4.32 (481kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/wavpack4.32-Solaris-x86.tar.gz">Solaris x86 version 4.32 (461kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/wavpack4.32-HPUX-HPPA.tar.gz">HPUX HP-PA version 4.32 (558kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/wavpack4.32-HPUX-ia64.tar.gz">HPUX Itanium version 4.32 (374kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/wavpack4.32-FreeBSD-x86.tar.gz">FreeBSD x86 version 4.32 (186kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/wavpack4.32-NetBSD-x86.tar.gz">NetBSD x86 version 4.32 (372kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/wavpack4.32-OpenBSD-x86.tar.gz">OpenBSD x86 version 4.32 (345kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/wavpack4.32-Tru64-Alpha.tar.gz">Tru64 Unix version 4.32 (515kB)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="item"> <a name="wavpack-dshow"></a><h3><a href="#wavpack-dshow">WavPack directshow filter</a></h3> <span class="itemDate">2005-04-19</span> <p>WavPack decoder for DirectShow players - by the CoreCodec team. v.1.0.3</p> <ul class="downloadList"> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/CoreWavPack-setup_1.0.3.exe">Download (95kB)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="item"> <a name="tak"></a><h3><a href="#tak">TAK Lossless codec v1.0</a></h3> <span class="itemDate">2007-01-30</span> <p>TAK is a novel lossless compressor developed by Thomas Becker that achieves near-Monkey's Audio "High" compression with near-FLAC decompression speed. Worth checking out. Only command line encoder and decoder available ATM. Includes a GUI frontend.</p> <ul class="downloadList"> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/Tak1.0.zip">Download (522kB)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="item"> <a name="alac"></a><h3><a href="#alac">Apple Lossless decoders v0.1.3</a></h3> <span class="itemDate">2006-10-26</span> <p>Compiles of the reverse-engineered Apple Lossless (ALAC) decoder v0.1.3.</p> <ul class="downloadList"> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/alac_generic.zip">Generic Win32 compile (28kB)</a> - by John33</li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/alac_p4.zip">P4 Win32 compile (29kB)</a> - by John33</li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/alac_decoder_OSX.zip">MacOS PowerPC compile (13kB)</a> - by Solaris</li> </ul> </div> <div class="item"> <a name="tta-foobar"></a><h3><a href="#tta-foobar">TTA plugin for foobar2000 0.9</a></h3> <span class="itemDate">2006-05-04</span> <p>An unofficial TTA plugin for foobar2000 created by Ayana (aka TgayananII) and with readme translated to english by Liisachan</p> <ul class="downloadList"> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/foo_input_tta_2.4.2.zip">Download (120kB)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="item"> <a name="monkeys-dshow"></a><h3><a href="#monkeys-dshow">DSP-Worx APE directshow filter</a></h3> <span class="itemDate">2005-11-12</span> <p>Monkey's Audio decoder for DirectShow players - by the <a onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blank');return false;" href="http://dsp-worx.de/index.php?n=7">DSP-Worx</a> team. v.1.0</p> <ul class="downloadList"> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/MonkeySource_v1.00_Installer.zip">Download (368kB)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="item"> <a name="monkeys-radlight"></a><h3><a href="#monkeys-radlight">RadLight APE directshow filter</a></h3> <span class="itemDate">2004-06-05</span> <p>Monkey's Audio decoder for DirectShow players - by the <a onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blank');return false;" href="http://www.radlight.net">RadLight</a> team. v.1.0.0.4 <i>(it doesn't work on Win9x due to Unicode compatibility issues. You can use DSP-worx's filter</a> in Win9x - just look at the entry above)</i></p> <ul class="downloadList"> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/RadLightAPE.exe">Download (127kB)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="item"> <a name="optimfrog-radlight"></a><h3><a href="#optimfrog-radlight">RadLight OFR directshow filter</a></h3> <span class="itemDate">2004-04-30</span> <p>OptimFrog decoder for DirectShow players - by the <a onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blank');return false;" href="http://www.radlight.net">RadLight</a> team. v.1.0.0.1 - now with Dual Stream decoding.</p> <ul class="downloadList"> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/RadLightOFR.exe">Download (143kB)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="item"> <a name="flac-bundle"></a><h3><a href="#flac-bundle">FLAC v.1.2.1 bundle for Mac OS-X</a></h3> <span class="itemDate">2008-06-30</span> <p>Universal 32 bit and 64 bit binaries of FLAC and Metaflac by S_O</p> <ul class="downloadList"> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/flac-1.2.1-macosx.tar.gz">Download (1285kB)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="item"> <a name="flacdrop-l3m"></a><h3><a href="#flacdrop-l3m">FLACdrop by layer3maniac</a></h3> <span class="itemDate">2002-03-13</span> <p>The old drag-and-drop FLAC frontend by layer3maniac</p> <ul class="downloadList"> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/flacdrop.zip">Download (132kB)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="item"> <a name="shorten-optimized"></a><h3><a href="#shorten-optimized">Shorten V. 3.6.1 2014</a></h3> <span class="itemDate">2014-06-26</span> <p>No code changes, just new compiles using ICL 14.0.3.202 compiler.</p> <ul class="downloadList"> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/shorten3.6.1-2014.zip">Win32 Download (110kB)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rarewares.org/files/lossless/shorten3.6.1_x64-2014.zip">Win64 Download (141kB)</a></li> </ul> </div> </div>  <div id="footerBox"> <p>Design & layout code by <a href="http://davidnaylor.org/blog/">David Naylor.</a></p> <p><a href="https://validator.w3.org/check/referer"><img src="images/valid-html.png" alt="Validate this page for HTML 4.01"></a> <a href="https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=https://www.rarewares.org/CSS/rarewares.css&warning=1&profile=css2"><img src="images/valid-css.png" alt="Validate this page for CSS2"></a></p> </div> </body> </html>

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