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ALF2CD

Hi, people, recently I found on some computer CD an utility called ALF2CDConverter. It turns wav files into wav files, but much smaller size - 256, 320, 384 and 512 kbps. The enclosed internet link isn't functional anymore, but the authors say something about "high quality - own concept compression"... and there was still something about ACM and Windows, but I can't now remember. Has anybody any experience with this?

ALF2CD

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Hi, people, recently I found on some computer CD an utility called ALF2CDConverter. It turns wav files into wav files, but much smaller size - 256, 320, 384 and 512 kbps. The enclosed internet link isn't functional anymore, but the authors say something about "high quality - own concept compression"... and there was still something about ACM and Windows, but I can't now remember. Has anybody any experience with this?

NCT ALF2 CD Audio Codec 
Version:
2.01

File size:
1.1 MB

License:
Free

Minimum requirements:
Windows 95/98/ NT/2000, Windows Media Player

http://www.zdnetindia.com/downloads/info/5054625.html

From the developer: "NCT ALF2 CD Audio Codec is high quality and fast encoder/decoder of audio data, written in CD Audio standard (44100 Hz, 16 bit, Stereo). NCT ALF2 CD audio codec allows to encode and decode with the following bitrates: 256 Kbps, 320 Kbps, 384 Kbps, 512 Kbps. Codec is based on original method of audio compression, which doesn't use patented audio compression algorithms (MP3 and others). ALF2 CD Audio Codec is implemented as standard Windows ACM driver. It allows to use well known program, for example such as Winamp, Windows Media Player, CoolEdit and others for playback and editing compressed audio files. Distribute package of AudioCodec includes the following programs: ALF2CDConverter.exe - for conversion WAV files to ALF2CD format. ALF2CDGrabber.exe - grabber to ALF2CD format with CDDB support."
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ALF2CD

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Hubbabub:

Thnx, nice from you, but this all can be found on the computer CD...

I would like to know if someone has tried it already and what experience has with the quality, because to be honest, I got very little time for experimenting, but I would prefer something like this if I eventually was made to make some lossy compression (besides MPC "Braindead"...  )

ALF2CD

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Hubbabub:

Thnx, nice from you, but this all can be found on the computer CD...

I would like to know if someone has tried it already and what experience has with the quality, because to be honest, I got very little time for experimenting, but I would prefer something like this if I eventually was made to make some lossy compression (besides MPC "Braindead"...  :lol: )

Maybe other people wanted to know about the progam, your gave out so little info about it in your first post.
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Hubbabub
Hubba hubba zoot zoot...

ALF2CD

Reply #4 –
interesting..  it seems to be targeting pretty high bitrates.  maybe its some sort of adpcm compression?  I've never heard of it.