TAK

File Format
Name	TAK
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Audio and Music TAK
Extension(s)	.tak

Overview

TAK, or Tom's lossless Audio Kompressor, is a lossless audio codec and file format developed by Thomas Becker. It is free for non-commercial use, but the source code is still closed.

Software

Windows

• Official build (Winamp plugin, SDK, etc)
• foobar2000 plugin
• dsfTAKSource (DirectShow filter)
• TAK Lossless codec v1.0

Cross-platform

• FFmpeg

Resources

• Official website (in german)
• Hydrogenaudio on TAK