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We have:

Elkarte - default
Clean - minimalist
Silence - darkmode

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Straw is a lossless audio codec derived from FLAC but redesigned for multi-channel material and simplified framing. It maintains LPC prediction and Rice residual coding while adding mechanisms to exploit similarities between channels. The result is a format that is structurally simpler than FLAC and often more efficient when many microphones or correlated signals are involved.

Summary:
• Adds correction data for multi-channel alignment (shift, bias, gain).
• Provides per-channel shift matrices and removed-sample alignment information.
• Removes FLAC block-size tables, sample-rate codes, channel-assignment codes, wasted-bits, and many reserved fields.
• Uses a new 14-bit sync code and non-byte-aligned subframes. 
• Supports both standard Rice and FF-Rice residual coders.
• Designed to improve compression for multi-channel audio compared to FLAC.

Git_v1: https://github.com/KLZ-0/straw#readme
Git_v2: https://github.com/KLZ-0/straw2#readme

Tech docs: Design - Differences from FLAC - The .straw file format - Size history

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