Add support for .tak audio

[john32b]

Add support for .tak audio

[john32b]

I looked into this a bit. The TAK encoder only seems to be working with .wav files, where I need it to work with pcm files. (raw audio data, as it is on the CDDA)

FFmpeg works well , because it supports converting from and to PCM CD Audio out of the box, also ffmpeg does seem to have some TAK functionality but it only supports decoding from it, not encoding to the format. (which can't work, we need both encoding+decoding)

Perhaps there is a way to quickly convert a PCM->WAV so it can be passed to the TAK encoder. I want to avoid copying PCM files to entirely new WAV files, Perhaps there is a way of adding some header data at the beginning of the PCM files to convert them to WAV? And them from TAK->WAV I could just strip the headers and have raw PCM.

I'm leaving this open, I will come back to it!

[john32b]

Yeah, it works, I can do this with piping output from ffmpeg to takc. So a PCM can be converted to TAK on the fly. And the codec does seem to be fast and produce nicely compressed results.

I'll implement this soon!

[dubbz82]

Nice!