524 Like FLAC Good alternative? YES NO FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android BSD Lossless Audio Lossless Compression Add a feature
277 Like LAME Good alternative? YES NO LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL. It is considered the best MP3 encoder at mid-high bitrates and at VBR. Both quality... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
262 Like Vorbis Good alternative? YES NO Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality (8kHz-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and variable... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
30 Like Opus Interactive Audio Codec Alternative? YES NO Opus is a totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec. Opus is unmatched for interactive speech and music transmission over the Internet, but also intended... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
78 Like CCCP: Combined Community Codec Pack YES NO The CCCP was created to replace the video playback packs provided in favor of a single reliable pack capable of decoding practically anything. CCCP was created to... Free Windows No features added Add a feature Discontinued Last update was from 2015. See http://www.cccp-project.net/
19 Like ffdshow tryouts Good alternative? YES NO ffdshow tryouts is a DirectShow and Video for Windows codec with support for a wide range of audio and video formats, such as Xvid, DivX, and H.264. It includes a... Free Open Source Windows No features added Add a feature
6 Like Xvid Good alternative? YES NO Xvid is an open-source research project focusing on video compression and is a collaborative development effort. All code is released under the terms of the GNU GPL... Free Open Source Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
8 Like LAVfilters Good alternative? YES NO LAV Filters are a set of open-source DirectShow filters, aimed to eventually replace the better part of the playback chain required to play all and any modern media. ... Free Open Source Windows No features added Add a feature
12 Like Apple Lossless Good alternative? YES NO Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music. Apple Lossless data is stored within an... Free Open Source Mac Windows Lossless Compression Add a feature
6 Like WavPack Good alternative? YES NO WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless, high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode. Although the technology is loosely... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Lossless Compression Add a feature
5 Like Nero AAC Codec Good alternative? YES NO Nero AAC reference quality MPEG-4 and 3GPP audio codec - Compression ratios ranging from Ultra High (58 CDs fit on one!) to High-End Audio (2.5:1), for absolutely... Free Personal Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
2 Like TAK Good alternative? YES NO »TAK – [T]om’s lossless [a]udio [k]ompressor / [T]oms verlustfreier [A]udio[k]ompressor – is, as the name already suggests, a lossless audio compressor, similar to... Free Windows Winamp foobar2000 Lossless Audio Add a feature
1 Like Satsuki Decoder Pack Good alternative? YES NO Satsuki Decoder Pack is an audio/video auto-installable filters and decoder for windows 2k/XP/2k3/2k8/vista/seven/8 (French, English). The purpose of this pack is to... Free Windows No features added Add a feature
