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
19 Like Matroska Good alternative? YES NO The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture, or subtitle tracks... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android Lossless Compression Add a feature
4 Like Speex Good alternative? YES NO Speex is a patent-free audio compression format designed for speech and also a free software speech codec that may be used on VoIP applications and podcasts. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux 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
