Bonk
Bonk is an audio compression program that can operate in either lossy or lossless mode. In lossy mode, it achieves around 14:1 compression while remaining perceptually lossless; equivalent to around 95 kbps for CD quality stereo. In lossless mode, which allows exact recovery of the original audio file, the compression ratio is typically around 2:1. The compressed files are stored in a new format based on speech compression techniques. Compressed files can then be converted back to an uncompressed format or played back in real time.
| Tags | multimedia Sound/Audio Conversion Players |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX BSD FreeBSD NetBSD OpenBSD Linux |
| Implementation | C++ |
Recent releases
- 21 Jul 2002 12:37
Release Notes: Support for BSD variants was added. The bitrate for tonal sounds now automatically increases. The code now compiles with gcc 3.1.
- 10 May 2001 02:48
Release Notes: This release removes a clipping problem, features a more elegant (and faster) encoding algorithm, slightly improves decoding speed, and is now endian safe for playback (ie. can now playback on PowerPCs).
- 30 Apr 2001 01:35
Release Notes: This release features reducing of the default quantization level, better reproduction of high frequencies, a better speech compression mode, options to specify the output file, and artist name and track title setting.
- 22 Apr 2001 03:53
Release Notes: The warbling artifact that appeared for recordings containing very pure tones has been removed.
- 20 Apr 2001 22:25
No changes have been submitted for this release.
pfh
19 Apr 2001 22:05
Heartbeat
- Popularity Score
- 48.00
- Vitality Score
- 2.36
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