lossless audio codecs

MPC Select albums are also being made available in Lossless audio codecs in the following formats:

Common lossless audio codecs include FLAC, ALAC, Monkey's Audio and others.

LPC predictors are used in Shorten, MPEG-4 ALS, FLAC, and other lossless audio codecs.

Already competing with several existing lossless audio codecs, including FLAC, HD-AAC, and Windows Media's own lossless format, backwards compatibility poses as a key advantage for the format.

Shorten is no longer developed and more recent lossless audio codecs such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio (APE), TTA, and WavPack (WV) have become more popular.

The PS3 slim features an upgraded HDMI chip that allows bitstreaming of lossless audio codecs to an external receiver (earlier versions had to decode the signal internally before outputting it via LPCM).

On top of the core AAC codec, a scalable extension layer increases the signal-to-noise ratio, reaching lossless quality at data rates comparable to those of current pure lossless audio codecs, that is, at average compression ratios of about 58%.

Several lossless audio codecs, such as Shorten, FLAC, Apple Lossless, and MPEG-4 ALS, use a Rice code after the linear prediction step (called "adaptive FIR filter" in Apple Lossless).