I decided to resend this because it is slightly faster when compiled
with "ixemul.library" and has improved functionality.


TTA1 - Lossless Audio compressor
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Version 3.1, (c) 1999-2004 Alexander Djourik. All rights reserved.

TTA performs lossless compression on multichannel 8,16,24 integer
and 32-bit floating-point data of the Wav audio files. Being
"lossless" means that no data/quality is lost in the compression -
when uncompressed, the data will be identical to the original.

At now, mostly all of the popular lossless compressors gives a same
compression results (difference about 1-3%). The compression ratios
of TTA depend on the type of music file being compressed, but the
compression size will generally range between 30% - 70% of the
original.

TTA is a hardware-oriented format. It means that the TTA format has
a reasonable compression level, but WAS NOT developed to show a top
results in comparisons. TTA format supports both of ID3v1/v2 tags.
Detailed format description is available at http://www.true-audio.com

* Usage Instructions

ttaenc [command] [options] file(s).. <output path\>

Commands:

  -e      encode file(s)
  -d      decode file(s)
  -t      test file(s)
  -f name specify output file name
  -v      show codec version
  -h      this help

Options:

  -u      delete source file if successful
  -s      silent mode

Example usage:

  ttaenc -e *.wav; ttaenc -d *.tta \audio

When using wildcards, only the input name can be specified. The output
names will be automatically determined as the original name with the new
extension.


* Features

  - Support of 8,16,24 integer and
    32-bit floating-point multichannel Wav audio files;
  - Minimal system requirements;
  - High compression performance;
  - High speed performance;
  - CRC checking;
  - Corrupted data decoding;
  - Simple and clean output files format with
    precalculated seek points table.

* To Do

  - Plugins for popular players

* Developers

  Alexander Djourik <sasha@iszf.irk.ru>
  Pavel Zhilin <pzh@iszf.irk.ru> 


* Copying

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Please see the file COPYING in this directory for full copyright
information.


* See also

Please visit the TTA homepage at http://www.true-audio.com for the
latest in news and downloads.



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Why not check out this URL ?

http://home.iprimus.com.au/lombi/1/homepage.htm

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