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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: Roving Sign on September 01, 2007, 06:03:17 PM

Title: WavPack
Post by: Roving Sign on September 01, 2007, 06:03:17 PM

Any advantages here over flac?

http://www.wavpack.com/

Title: Re: WavPack
Post by: pigiron on September 02, 2007, 12:28:49 PM

interesting...

Never used WavPack but there's a comparison at the bottom of this page (http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html (http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html)) between FLAC and WavPack.

Between those two it look's like WavPack can do better compression at the cost of CPU usage and time. So... based on that, I'd guess it's a matter of your priorities. WavPack if you're worried about hard drive space, but FLAC if you're worried about direct playback on a underpowered device (or device support).

But the ability to get your loseless file back from a lossy compression seems like a fantastic feature!

More discussion between WavPack vs FLAC here... http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t43906-50.html (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t43906-50.html)