@billon
billon wrote:smaragdus wrote:BatchEncoder is the first (and perhaps the last) audio converter that supports LA!
Well,
La Frontend (which stealth after extraction) is audio converter that supports LA. It can be extended with third-party encoders, exactly like BatchEncoder, and less then 350 KB in size.
You like abandoned coders? How about Shorten, Lpac or even RKAU? I don't judge, but why if there are FLAC and, maybe, Monkey's Audio?
You are right,
La is portable (settings saved in
config.xml inside program folder) but it requires .NET and it has some inconveniences (it does not remember for example its desktop position after restart).
I like codecs which achieve better compression and
Lossless Audio (
LA) is one of the better ones in terms of compression, see below an old screen-shot showing compression sizes of lossless codecs (I performed this test about 2 years ago):
If I do new tests I will share my results again.
I do not like
FLAC. Its compression ratio is mediocre compared to
LA,
APE,
TAK, etc. In my tests
OFR always beats all other lossless codecs in terms of compression. I do not care about the compression speed since while the encoding takes place I am usually not waiting for the process to complete but doing other things. So encoding in
APE,
LA,
OFR, etc, may take longer than encoding in
FLAC but the results are better and permanent. Why should I care if
LA is abandoned when it performs better than
FLAC, which is still in active development?
LA released on 2004.02.08 still compresses better than
FLAC released on 2017.01.01.