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    Info-ZIP project

    Info-ZIP portable compression/archiver utilities

    Info-ZIP portable compression/archiver utilities (Zip, UnZip, WiZ, etc.)
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    5.0 out of 5 stars 17 Reviews
    Downloads: 106,427 This Week
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    Library and command line tools for XZ and LZMA compressed files
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    4.0 out of 5 stars 1 Review
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    LAME (Lame Aint an MP3 Encoder)

    LAME (Lame Aint an MP3 Encoder)

    A high quality MP3 encoder

    LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to improve the psycho acoustics, quality and speed of MP3 encoding. Note: we provide source code only!
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    Downloads: 38,447 This Week
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    PeaZip

    PeaZip

    Free Zip software and Rar extractor

    PeaZip is a free archiver tool. The application provides an unified, natively portable, cross-platform file manager and archive manager GUI for many Open Source technologies like 7-Zip, FreeArc, PAQ, UPX. Create: 7Z, ARC, Brotl, BZip, GZip, PEA, TAR, WIM, XZ, ZPAQ, ZIP, Zstandard files and more Open and extract 200+ file types: ACE, CAB, DEB, ISO, RAR, ZIPX and more Features of PeaZip includes extract, create and convert multiple archives at once, create self-extracting archives (sfx), split files, strong encryption with two factor authentication, encrypted password manager, secure deletion, find duplicate files, calculate hashes, export task definition as command line script.
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    4.6 out of 5 stars 115 Reviews
    Downloads: 4,008 This Week
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    p7zip is a quick port of 7z.exe and 7za.exe (command line version of 7zip, see www.7-zip.org) for Unix. 7-Zip is a file archiver with highest compression ratio. Since 4.10, p7zip (like 7-zip) supports little-endian and big-endian machines.
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    4.8 out of 5 stars 65 Reviews
    Downloads: 2,630 This Week
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    OptiPNG

    Advanced PNG optimization program

    OptiPNG is a PNG optimizer that recompresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information. This program also converts external formats (BMP, GIF, PNM and TIFF) to optimized PNG, and performs PNG integrity checks and corrections.
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    4.9 out of 5 stars 22 Reviews
    Downloads: 1,350 This Week
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    Zstandard

    Zstandard

    Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm

    Zstandard is a fast compression algorithm, providing high compression ratios. It also offers a special mode for small data, called dictionary compression. The reference library offers a very wide range of speed / compression trade-off, and is backed by an extremely fast decoder (see benchmarks below). Zstandard library is provided as open source software using a BSD license. Its format is stable and published as IETF RFC 8478. The negative compression levels, specified with --fast=#, offer faster compression and decompression speed in exchange for some loss in compression ratio compared to level 1, as seen in the table above. Zstd can trade compression speed for stronger compression ratios. It is configurable by small increment. Decompression speed is preserved and remain roughly the same at all settings, a property shared by most LZ compression algorithms, such as zlib or lzma.
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    FLAC is a free lossless compressed audio format which supports streaming and archival. The FLAC project maintains the format and provides a reference encoder/decoder and input plugins for several popular audio players.
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    4.8 out of 5 stars 41 Reviews
    Downloads: 313 This Week
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    Brotli

    Brotli

    Brotli compression format

    Version 1.0.9 contains a fix to "integer overflow" problem. This happens when "one-shot" decoding API is used (or input chunk for streaming API is not limited), input size (chunk size) is larger than 2GiB, and input contains uncompressed blocks. After the overflow happens, memcpy is invoked with a gigantic num value, that will likely cause the crash. Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression. The specification of the Brotli Compressed Data Format is defined in RFC 7932. Brotli is open-sourced under the MIT License. You can download and install brotli using the vcpkg dependency manager.
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    TTA Lossless Audio Codec
    Lossless compressor for multichannel 8,16 and 24 bits audio data, with the ability of password data protection. Being 'lossless' means that no data/quality is lost in the compression - when uncompressed, the data will be identical to the original.
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    4.9 out of 5 stars 27 Reviews
    Downloads: 228 This Week
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    FreeArc combines best 7-zip and RAR features: auto-selected LZMA/PPMD/Multimedia compression, 1gb dictionary, exe/dict/delta data filters, updatable solid archives, SFXes, recovery record, AES+Twofish+Serpent encryption, Linux support and much more...
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    3.8 out of 5 stars 16 Reviews
    Downloads: 367 This Week
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    zpaqfranz

    zpaqfranz

    Zpaq compatible archiver for Win, Linux, Free/OpenBSD, Solaris & MacOS

    High-Performance Archiver & Backup for Mission-Critical Data Bulletproof archival for multi-TB datasets, NAS, and VM backups Built for speed: multi-core CPUs and modern SSD/NVMe drives to achieve 1 GB/s+ throughput, up to 3x faster than 7-Zip Far more efficient and versatile than Time Machine or ZFS snapshots Key Features: ✓ Deduplicated, incremental & versioned backups ✓ Anti-ransomware integrity checks & deep validation ✓ Multi-hash support: SHA-2, SHA-3, BLAKE3, XXH3 & more ✓ Strong encryption & low bandwidth overhead for Cloud/NAS/USB ✓ Full deduplicated disk imaging ✓ Read-only Archive Mounting in filesystem ✓ Includes GUI (Win/Linux/Mac): sourceforge.net/projects/catpaq Cross-Platform & Lightweight: Runs on Windows (inc. XP), Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, TrueNAS, Synology, QNAP, ARM, and ESXi. 15+ years of active development • 100% FOSS • Forever Free github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz www.francocorbelli.it/zpaqfranz
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    4.9 out of 5 stars 16 Reviews
    Downloads: 132 This Week
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    IMPORTANT NEWS: UPX has moved to GitHub https://upx.github.io ========================
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    4.7 out of 5 stars 11 Reviews
    Downloads: 128 This Week
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    KGB Archiver is the compression tool with unbelievable high compression rate. It surpasses even such efficient compression tool like 7zip and UHARC in terms of the abilities. KGB Archiver uses AES-256 encryption to encrypt archives.
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    3.8 out of 5 stars 20 Reviews
    Downloads: 163 This Week
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    Areca Backup
    Areca-Backup is a file backup software that supports incremental, image and delta backup on local drives or FTP servers. Areca-Backup also allows you to browse your backups and navigate among different version of the files contained in your archives.
    4.4 out of 5 stars 76 Reviews
    Downloads: 100 This Week
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    hatchzip

    hatchzip

    HatchZip is a free, open-source archive extractor

    HatchZip is an open-source archive extraction utility designed to unpack large compressed files while minimizing additional disk space requirements. Available for Windows, macOS, and Linux, it provides both a graphical desktop application and a command-line interface. Unlike conventional extractors, HatchZip progressively releases storage occupied by the original archive as files are extracted. This approach allows users to extract archives on drives that cannot accommodate both the compressed and fully extracted contents simultaneously. The software supports ZIP, 7z, RAR, tar, compressed tar, and multipart archives. Before extraction, it calculates available storage requirements and checks whether the operation can complete safely. Its crash-resistant design supports resuming interrupted extraction operations. Users can also choose conventional extraction to preserve the original archive when sufficient storage is available.
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    7Zip-GUI

    7Zip-GUI

    This is an alternative GUI for 7zip on Linux

    This program is a Debian-based Linux alternative to 7zFM on Windows. It's easy to use. Thanks so much for Igor Pavlov! https://github.com/shampuan/7Zip-GUI Bu program, Windows tarafındaki 7zFM'in debian tabanlı linux'lar için alternatifidir.
    5.0 out of 5 stars 2 Reviews
    Downloads: 53 This Week
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    pngcrush and other tools for manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) and MNG (Multiple-image Network Graphics) files.
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    Downloads: 143 This Week
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    Zip-Ada

    Zip-Ada

    A standalone, portable Ada library for .zip archives

    Zip-Ada is a library for .zip archives. Full sources are in Ada and are unconditionally portable. Input and output can be any stream (file, buffer,...) for archive creation as well as data extraction. Task safe and endian-neutral. More information on: http://unzip-ada.sf.net Alire crate: https://alire.ada.dev/crates/zipada Mirror: https://github.com/zertovitch/zip-ada/
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    5.0 out of 5 stars 1 Review
    Downloads: 68 This Week
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    Areca Backup (fork)

    Areca Backup (fork)

    Free open source multiplatform backup solution.

    This independent development (fork) of Areca Backup attempts to extend its lifespan by fixing bugs and adding some new features while keeping its simplicity. Areca was originally developed by Olivier PETRUCCI (aventin): https://sourceforge.net/projects/areca/
    5.0 out of 5 stars 1 Review
    Downloads: 62 This Week
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    TurboPower Abbrevia

    TurboPower Abbrevia

    Advanced data compression toolkit for Delphi and C++Builder

    Abbrevia is a compression toolkit for Delphi, C++Builder, Kylix, and Free Pascal. It supports compressing and decompressing PKZIP, Microsoft CAB, tar, gzip, and bzip2 archives, and can create self-extracting executables. On Windows it also provides Delphi wrappers for the LZMA, Bzip2, and WavPack SDKs, and PPMd decompression. Abbrevia also has several visual controls that simplify displaying and manipulating archives, including treeview and listview components.
    5.0 out of 5 stars 9 Reviews
    Downloads: 18 This Week
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    A portable version of the ARJ archiver, available for a growing number of DOS-like and UNIX-like platforms on a variety of architectures.
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    Downloads: 91 This Week
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    7-Zip-JBinding

    7-Zip-JBinding

    Java wrapper for 7z archiver engine

    Native (JNI) cross-platform library to extract (password protected, multi-part) 7z Zip Rar Tar Split Lzma Iso HFS GZip Cpio BZip2 Z Arj Chm Lhz Cab Nsis Deb Rpm Wim Udf archives and create 7z, Zip, Tar, GZip & BZip2 from Java.
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    4.2 out of 5 stars 10 Reviews
    Downloads: 25 This Week
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    Snappy

    Snappy

    A fast compressor/decompressor

    Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster for most inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to 100% bigger. Snappy is intended to be fast. On a single core of a Core i7 processor in 64-bit mode, it compresses at about 250 MB/sec or more and decompresses at about 500 MB/sec or more. (These numbers are for the slowest inputs in our benchmark suite; others are much faster.) In our tests, Snappy usually is faster than algorithms in the same class (e.g. LZO, LZF, QuickLZ, etc.) while achieving comparable compression ratios.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Zippy

    Zippy

    Pure Nim implementation of deflate, zlib, gzip and zip

    Zippy is a pure Nim implementation of DEFLATE, ZLIB, GZIP, and ZIP data compression formats, aiming to be small, performant, and dependency-free.
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