I`m searching for short and useful infos about various audio compression formats for may web page (HA.org community is already in "thanks to" list).

mp1,mp2 (very short about these 2), mp3, MPC, VQF, mp3PRO, WMA, Speex. AAC, AAC+, MP4, MPEG-2/4 and relation between these 4 terms. About Ogg Vorbis (i think) i know enough.

1) Homepage
2) Authors
3) Pro and Contra
4) History
5) Perspective
6) Most useful links, i`m not searching for tons of them.
7) In what program (in general) it is or will be used. EG. Speex - Internet telephony programs like openphone.
8) (Estimated) price and licensing infos.

I already know somethin - in Polish: http://www.ogg.pl/inne.htm. My page is close to final version. I need only this what i asked here, info about making Ogg Vorbis stream server (there is another topic on HA.org about it) and to translate descriptions of links to artists/bands/shops pages.

Also about loseless..., please TRY to pick best one.
Monkey's Audio: http://www.monkeysaudio.com
FLAC: http://flac.sourceforge.net
LPAC: http://www-ft.ee.tu-berlin.de/~liebchen/lpac.html
WavPack: http://www.wavpack.com
Shorten: http://shnutils.etree.org/shorten, http://www.softsound.com/Shorten.html, http://www.etree.org/shncom.html
RKAU: http://rksoft.virtualave.net/rkau.html
OptimFROG: http://ghido.shelter.ro
La: http://lossless-audio.com

Did i missed something?

EDIT: Yes! I will gladly write something about Matroska

I hope this topic will help also other webmasters.

Speex:

1) Homepage: http://www.speex.org
2) Author: Jean-Marc Valin
3a) pro:
free/open-source (BSD-licensed)
tuned specifically for speech (out-performs general codecs on speech)
VBR/multiple sampling rates and bit-rates (rare for speech codecs)
3b) contra:
sucks at music
4) History: version 0.0.1 released march 2002, 1.0 is expected soon (~March 2003)

Info about Speex on my page has been updated. I also wrote something more (from www.speex.org) and not only. Thanks for support

Go to http://www.audiocoding.com/wiki
I think there is all the info you may need...

Ok, thanks. I think it will be enough

EDIT:

NO! Not enough!

1) Has anyone infos about WMA Pro ?
2) I want to write something about matroska also.