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Title: iRiver 120/Rockbox - recording with Wavpack?
Post by: Ziggz on January 19, 2010, 06:24:57 AM

I've just been playing around with Wavpack, and seem to be getting a ridiculously good amount of battery life with it, and a 4hr file was only 547MB!

Anyone use it for live taping? Is it really lossless and any pitfalls to keep an eye on?

Title: Re: iRiver 120/Rockbox - recording with Wavpack?
Post by: petur on January 19, 2010, 07:38:10 AM

wavpack is lossless, yes.

Title: Re: iRiver 120/Rockbox - recording with Wavpack?
Post by: Ziggz on January 19, 2010, 11:01:37 PM

Cool. If I convert to WAVE using Foobar, these settings are OK?

(http://i50.tinypic.com/2i07zmo.jpg)

Title: Re: iRiver 120/Rockbox - recording with Wavpack?
Post by: petur on January 25, 2010, 04:30:39 AM

I think it says what it says... select between faster compression or smaller files.
Never used wavpack so experiment a bit ;)

Title: Re: iRiver 120/Rockbox - recording with Wavpack?
Post by: fmaderjr on January 25, 2010, 06:31:08 AM

Quote from: Ziggz on January 19, 2010, 11:01:37 PM

Cool. If I convert to WAVE using Foobar, these settings are OK?

I can't help feeling I'm missing something here but the settings you show appear to be the settings for converting TO wavpack rather than FROM wavpack.

Title: Re: iRiver 120/Rockbox - recording with Wavpack?
Post by: petur on January 25, 2010, 07:29:23 AM

heh.... now I see it too. I thought he was going to encode a file in wavpack for testing, not decoding back to wav :D

Title: Re: iRiver 120/Rockbox - recording with Wavpack?
Post by: Ziggz on January 25, 2010, 02:49:02 PM

Got it  ;) I will try it out in a live setting this week. Love the battery life using wavpack - it was only half way down after 6hrs.