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Re:QOI – The “Quite OK Image Format” for fast, lossless imag... by 323 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @03:36PM (#29666166)
WavPack might fit the bill. It has decent software support. Not sure if DAWs can use it natively, they might unpack it to a temp folder.

https://www.wavpack.com/

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Re:QOI – The “Quite OK Image Format” for fast, lossless imag... by zigzag312 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @03:47PM (#29666283)
Reaper does. Unfortunately, WavPack has a bit too much performance overhead.
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Re:QOI – The “Quite OK Image Format” for fast, lossless imag... by 323 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @03:53PM (#29666336)
It's a 20 year old format.

ZStandard is a very good compressor, with an especially fast decompressor. Maybe someone should try using this instead of zlib in an audio format (FLAC, WavPack, ...)

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Re:QOI – The “Quite OK Image Format” for fast, lossless imag... by BlueSwordM on Thursday December 23, 2021 @05:02PM (#29667017)
I mean, is there really a need for utilizing ZStd for audio compression?

FLAC is extremely good at compression audio, has very fast encode and uber fast decode. It also doesn't use zlib...

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