[LAD] new lossless/lossy audio compressor

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Gregory Alan Hildstrom wrote:

> I tested against flac, lpac, shorten, and monkey's audio for lossless
> encoding. j2kaudio beat the nearest competition by over 10%.

Nicely done.
 
> If anyone is motivated to test some additional songs, provide me with
> additional test data, or suggest another untested codec, please let me know.
> 
> http://geocities.com/hildstrom/projects/j2kaudio/index.html

And a BSD style license. Very nice.

Ok, some comments from a sound file specialist :-)

  - It would be nice to have a file header that is just a little more
    obvious. For instance, the first four bytes of an Ogg file contain
    the string 'OggS'.

  - Do you have any thoughts/plans on adding metadata like song title,
    artist, copyright info etc?

  - Audio data other than 16 bit is a must. I would suggest at a minimum
    16 bit int, 24 bit int and 32 bit float, for audio.

  - Have you thought of putting your codec data inside other standard
    container formats like WAV, Caf and Ogg?

  - What are your thoughts on having this included in libsndfile?

Cheers,
Erik
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