Free Lossless Audio Codec for bit-perfect audio copy with lossless compression. FOSS DRM-less. metadata

DTS-X

DTS-HD

`AC3`

Dobly Digital Lossy Audio Compression (ver 3) multi-channel support

TrueHD

EAC3

AAC

MP3

Popular Lossy Audio Format. Signal cutt-off beyond average hearing range. Proprietary?

MS Lossy Audio Format - lossless variant exists?! Bad ecosystem support

Apple Lossless Audio Codec

MS Waveform Audio Format. Huge Uncompressed. No metadata embed support.

data bits process per second (kbps for audio)(mbps for video)