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
• Cl Qoa - Common Lisp

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
• Visual Studio Code: supports playing QOA files with the QOA Preview extension