WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless, high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode.
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wavpack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless, highquality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode. although the technology is loosely based on previous versions of wavpack, the new version 4 format has been designed from the ground up to offer unparalleled performance and functionality.
wavpack features include:
compatible with virtually all pcm audio formats including 8, 16, 24, and 32bit ints; 32bit floats; mono, stereo, and multichannel; sampling rates from 6 to 192 khz (and nonstandard rates) multiplatform support including windows, linux, and os x, plus a flash decoder and silverlight decoder that can work virtually anywhere, and now a webbased audio converter that can decode wavpack files online instantly seekable and streaming capable (and gapless) replaygain (including wavpack file scanner and compatible plugins) uses id3v1 and apev2 tags for metadata (including replaygain) errortolerant block format conducive to hardware decoding optional "asymmetrical" mode for improved compression md5 audio checksums for verification and identification unique hybrid mode (provides high quality lossy + "correction" filedynamic noise shaping (dns) for optimum quality at lower hybrid bitrates hybrid mode now operates as low as 2.25 bits/sample (or 196 kbps for cd audio) free and open source with easy to use c library api and unrestrictive license (bsd) intuitive command line interface (with wildcards and destination directory) small, efficient executable (no large programs or dlls to install) special "low latency" version available for custom applications selfextracting archives with cuesheets (windows only) java and c# decoders and encoders available fully backward compatible to wavpack 1.0 complete piping support
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