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TTA Lossless Audio Codec - Performance Comparison

From True Audio Codec Software

This section compares TTA with other free open-source lossless audio compressors. All music files were WAV format files which were extracted from original audio CDs. No pre-processing was performed.

Comparing the TTA codec with three popular lossless audio compressors:


  1. Monkeys Audio v3.97 http://www.monkeysaudio.com
  2. Wavpack v3.97 http://www.wavpack.com
  3. Flac v1.1.0 http://flac.sourceforge.net


For testing we use P4 Celeron, 2.6GHz, SATA, with 256MB RAM, operating under Windows XP Home edition.

Using 6 albums of various styles:
1. Enigma - Voyageur 4. Ott - Blumenkraft
2. Franz Liszt - Piano Concertos 5. Schumann - Piano Concerto
3. Dagda - Celtic Trance 6. Yello - The Eye
Comparison average result of all albums
TTA comparison - Average result


Additional TTA comparisons online:


Enigma - Voyageur

options file size (MB) % of orig. file encode time
WAV file - 477.8 100.0 *47:20
TTA 3.0 - 275.6 57.7 0:49
Monkey's Audio 3.97 fast 277.3 58.0 0:52
Wavpack 3.97 fast 296.6 62.1 0:22
Flac 1.1.0 fast (0) 302.0 63.2 0:43
Monkey's Audio 3.97 normal 272.4 57.0 1:12
Wavpack 3.97 normal 279.8 58.6 0:44
Flac 1.1.0 normal (5) 284.6 59.6 1:21
Monkey's Audio 3.97 high 271.5 56.8 1:25
Wavpack 3.97 high 273.6 57.3 1:43
Flac 1.1.0 high (8) 283.3 59.3 10:34
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Franz Liszt - Piano Concertos

options file size (MB) % of orig. file encode time
WAV file - 659.2 100.0 *59:42
TTA 3.0 - 226.3 34.3 1:01
Monkey's Audio 3.97 fast 226.2 34.3 1:05
Wavpack 3.97 fast 274.3 41.6 0:25
Flac 1.1.0 fast (0) 247.4 37.5 0:52
Monkey's Audio 3.97 normal 219.7 33.3 1:34
Wavpack 3.97 normal 236.0 35.8 0:56
Flac 1.1.0 normal (5) 240.0 36.4 1:40
Monkey's Audio 3.97 high 217.0 32.9 1:53
Wavpack 3.97 high 225.5 34.2 2:16
Flac 1.1.0 high (8) 239.3 36.3 13:12
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Dagda - Celtic Trance

options file size (MB) % of orig. file encode time
WAV file - 567.8 100.0 *56:14
TTA 3.0 - 347.4 61.2 0:59
Monkey's Audio 3.97 fast 345.8 60.9 1:01
Wavpack 3.97 fast 361.9 63.7 0:27
Flac 1.1.0 fast (0) 366.2 64.5 0:54
Monkey's Audio 3.97 normal 340.1 59.9 1:26
Wavpack 3.97 normal 348.7 61.4 0:53
Flac 1.1.0 normal (5) 352.0 62.0 1:36
Monkey's Audio 3.97 high 337.1 59.4 1:43
Wavpack 3.97 high 342.1 60.2 2:05
Flac 1.1.0 high (8) 350.0 61.6 12:34
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Ott - Blumenkraft

options file size (MB) % of orig. file encode time
WAV file - 734.2 100.0 *72:44
TTA 3.0 - 471.1 64.2 1:17
Monkey's Audio 3.97 fast 472.1 64.3 1:18
Wavpack 3.97 fast 507.2 69.0 0:34
Flac 1.1.0 fast (0) 520.0 70.8 1:07
Monkey's Audio 3.97 normal 463.4 63.1 1:49
Wavpack 3.97 normal 477.0 64.9 1:06
Flac 1.1.0 normal (5) 485.7 66.2 1:58
Monkey's Audio 3.97 high 460.8 62.8 2:11
Wavpack 3.97 high 465.8 63.4 2:34
Flac 1.1.0 high (8) 482.9 65.8 15:14
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Schumann - Piano Concerto

options file size (MB) % of orig. file encode time
WAV file - 618.7 100.0 *64:49
TTA 3.0 - 218.6 35.3 0:58
Monkey's Audio 3.97 fast 216.1 34.9 1:00
Wavpack 3.97 fast 252.7 40.9 0:23
Flac 1.1.0 fast (0) 235.7 38.1 0:48
Monkey's Audio 3.97 normal 212.3 34.3 1:27
Wavpack 3.97 normal 224.6 36.3 0:53
Flac 1.1.0 normal (5) 229.9 37.2 1:34
Monkey's Audio 3.97 high 210.7 34.1 1:45
Wavpack 3.97 high 216.4 34.9 2:08
Flac 1.1.0 high (8) 229.3 37.1 12:28
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Yello - The Eye

options file size (MB) % of orig. file encode time
WAV file - 612.4 100.0 *61:01
TTA 3.0 - 373.6 61.0 1:03
Monkey's Audio 3.97 fast 374.8 61.2 1:07
Wavpack 3.97 fast 392.4 64.1 0:28
Flac 1.1.0 fast (0) 402.2 65.7 0:55
Monkey's Audio 3.97 normal 367.6 60.0 1:33
Wavpack 3.97 normal 378.3 61.8 0:54
Flac 1.1.0 normal (5) 382.8 62.5 1:34
Monkey's Audio 3.97 high 364.9 59.6 1:52
Wavpack 3.97 high 370.1 60.4 2:07
Flac 1.1.0 high (8) 379.8 61.9 12:43
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