QOA - The “Quite OK Audio Format” for fast, lossy audio compression

Single-file MIT licensed library for C/C++

See qoa.h for the documentation and format specification.

More info at: https://qoaformat.org

Audio samples in WAV & QOA format can be found at: https://qoaformat.org/samples/

⚠️ This implementation has not yet been fuzzed. Don't use it with untrusted input.

Alternative Implementations of QOA

pfusik/qoa-fu - Fusion, transpiling to C, C++, C#, D, Java, JavaScript, Python, Swift and TypeScript
qoa-format - JavaScript encoder/decoder
JohannesFriedrich/qoa4R - R
rafaelcaricio/qoaudio - Pure Rust zero-dependency decoder implementation
AuburnSounds/audio-formats - D library, supports QOA
braheezy/goqoa - Go library and CLI tool
HaxelWorks/qoa-python - Python wrapper using cffi

QOA Support in Other Software

Godot Engine - supports compressing WAV files into QOA since 4.3
raylib - supports decoding QOA samples through its raudio module
SerenityOS supports QOA system wide through QOALoader.h
Qmmp - supports decoding QOA samples