Simple to use tool created to help you reduce the entropy of FLAC, ALAC, WAV, and AIFF high resolution audio files for higher compression rates. #Compress audio #Optimize audio #Optimize entropy #Compress #Optimize #Audio
High-resolution audio is the go-to format for audiophiles and for streaming services which want to deliver the best quality for their users. The problem with it is that it also needs large quantities of disk space and, in the case of online streaming, of massive amounts of bandwidth.
To counter it, you can use an app such as XiFEO, a Java-based multi-platform utility designed to drastically reduce the entropy of 24-bit only FLAC, ALAC, WAV, MP3 and AIFF audio files, with frequencies between 44.1 and 384 kHz.
XiFEO batch converts your high-res audio files to the FLAC format, with compression rates between 30 to 50%, and it shrinks them by applying out of band noise filtering and dithered bit truncation.
XiFEO also employs SNR analysis to make sure that it correctly and accurately recognizes the exact number of bits submerged in noise for each of the files you need to compress.
Moreover, XiFEO is a user-friendly utility and using it is as easy as drag and dropping the files you need to compress onto its main screen and clicking the Start button at the top of the window.
Before starting the audio compression process with the help of XiFEO, you can also choose the audio compression level, and you can select between multi-threaded and single-threaded processing.
You can customize the filename scheme for all output files, pick a custom output folder and enable the audio filter.
Once XiFEO starts working, it displays the optimization status for each audio file next to its after starting the entropy reduction process.
The only downside we found while testing the XiFEO app is not related to its performance, but to its user interface which does not fit within macOS' look. However, this is not very important considering the overall perfect job it did throughout the test session.
In conclusion, even though XiFEO does not look quite at home on a Mac since it is built using Java and it is not designed as a native macOS app, it packs all the tools you need to compress high-res 24-bit FLAC, ALAC, WAV, MP3 and AIFF audio files.
What's new in XiFEO 1.1.2:
- Minor bug fixes and performance improvements
- The Apple version of the program got an update to avoid the false positive trojan warning caused by the Gatekeeper on older OS X versions.
XiFEO 1.1.2
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- Mac OS X 10.7.3 or later (Intel only)
- file size:
- 83.7 MB
- filename:
- XiFEO.dmg
- main category:
- Audio
- developer:
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