TurboBench is a compression benchmarking tool that tests 100+ codecs against the Silesia Corpus on multiple platforms (linux-aarch64 and linux-riscv64). Results show compression ratios, compression/decompression speeds, and rankings, with zstd and brotli performing well on compression ratio and misa77 excelling in decompression speed.
Lacquer is an iOS app that detects fake lossless audio files by analyzing the actual audio content rather than file metadata, using FFT analysis to identify upscaled or re-encoded files. It offers on-device processing with no uploads or accounts required, displaying spectral evidence for its verdicts, and functions as a full lossless audio player supporting FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC, and m4a formats.
JPEG XL, despite being a technically impressive and royalty-free image codec, struggles to justify its adoption on the Web. The author argues that lossy compression dominates Web use cases where JPEG XL offers minimal advantage, and modern encoders like AV1 now surpass JPEG XL in both speed and compression efficiency according to perceptual metrics.