Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase:Sandbox

Features	Template:Turquoise ALAC	Template:Turquoise FLAC	Template:Turquoise Monkey's	Template:Turquoise OptimFROG	Template:Turquoise RealLossless	Template:Turquoise Shorten
Encoding speed	average	fast	fast	slow	average	very fast
Decoding speed	very fast	very fast	fast	slow	fast	very fast
Compression*	58,50%	58,70%	55,50%	54,70%		63,50%
Flexibility**	bad	very good	very good	very good	bad	bad
Error handling		yes	yes	yes		no
Seeking	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Tagging	QT tags	FLAC tags	ID3/APE	ID3/APE	Proprietary	no
Hardware support	yes	yes	no	no	no	no
Software support	bad	very good	good	average	bad	very good
Hybrid/lossy	no	no	no	yes	no	no
ReplayGain	sort of	yes	no	no	no	no
RIFF chunks		no	yes	yes		yes
Streaming	yes	yes		yes	yes	no
Pipe support	no	yes	yes	yes	no	yes
Open source	Yes (decoding)	yes	yes	no	no	yes
Multichannel	no	yes	no	no	no	no
High resolution	no	yes	yes	yes	no	no
OS support	Win/Mac	All	All	Win/Linux	Win/Mac/Linux	All