Lossless Audio Codecs

The files in this directory are examples of lossless audio codecs. They
all use luckynight.wav (bzip2'd in this directory) as the source 
material. The file is a 1-minute sample extracted from a CD (hence, 44.1 
KHz, 16-bit stereo audio).

The audio sample is compressed in a variety of formats. Each sample also
attempts to store as much metadata as the format allows. E.g.:

Title: "Lucky Night"
Artist: "Jody Marie Gnant"
Album: "Treasure Quest Soundtrack"
Genre: "Soundtrack"
Track Number: "9"
Comment: "1-minute song sample demonstrating Brand-X's lossless audio
compression"

These are the compression formats:
.ape:  Monkey's Audio
   http://www.monkeysaudio.com/
.flac: FLAC (Free Lossless Audio codec)
   http://flac.sourceforge.net/
.la:   Lossless Audio
   http://www.lossless-audio.com/
.m4a:  Apple Lossless (alac) in QT/MP4 container
   http://www.apple.com/quicktime/
.mlp:  Meridian Lossless Packing
   http://www.meridian-audio.com//p_mlp_in.htm
.mp4:  MPEG Audio Lossless Coding (ALS)
   http://www.nue.tu-berlin.de/menue/forschung/projekte/beendete_projekte/mpeg-4_audio_lossless_coding_als/parameter/en/
.ofr:  OptimFROG
   http://losslessaudiocompression.com/
.pac:  LPAC
   http://www.nue.tu-berlin.de/wer/liebchen/lpac.html
.rka:  RKAU
   http://rksoft.virtualave.net/index.html
.rmvb: RealMedia Lossless audio in Real container
   http://www.real.com/
.shn:  Shorten audio codec
   http://www.softsound.com/Shorten.html
.tta:  True Audio
   http://www.true-audio.com/codec.project
.wma:  Windows Media Audio 9 lossless in MS ASF container
   http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.aspx
.wv:   WavPack
   http://www.wavpack.com/