WavPack Audio Compression
WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless, high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode. For version 5.0.0, several new file formats and lossless DSD audio compression were added, making WavPack a universal audio archiving solution.
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Guide for developers moving to WavPack 5 from a previous version. Explains what's changed and just the essentials for taking advantage of the new features. Download
WavPack User Documentation
WavPack consists of two complementary command-line programs, WavPack and WvUnpack. These programs allow you to compress (and restore) audio files in several formats including the Microsoft .wav format.
Hybrid Lossless Audio Compression - WavPack
WavPack allows you to losslessly compress (and restore) both 16 and 24-bit audio files in the .WAV format. Unlike "lossy" compression schemes (like MP3) that discard information, WavPack converts the audio data into a more compact form so that the restored files are digitally identical to the original source.
WavPack User Documentation
WavPack consists of two complimentary executable programs, WavPack and WvUnpack. These programs allow you to compress (and restore) stereo and mono audio files in the .WAV format. The audio files must be simple PCM from 16 to 24 bits per sample.
The purpose of WavPack 5 was to eliminate the last nagging, artificial limitations that existed in the previous WavPack versions, and to introduce a few extra capabilities that will allow WavPack to serve
A WavPack 4.0 or 5.0 file consists of a series of WavPack audio blocks. It may also contain tags and other information, but these must be outside the blocks (either before, in-between, or after) and are ignored for the purpose of unpacking audio …
WavPack [WavPack 06] is a completely open, multiplatform audio compression algorithm and software that supports three compression modes, lossless, high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode.
This document describes the use of the WavPack library (libwavpack) from a programmer's viewpoint. The library is designed to make reading and writing WavPack files as easy as possible, however there are some subtleties involved (especially when creating WavPack files) that should be understood to get
WavPack Technical Description
WavPack's Technology To ensure high-speed operation, WavPack uses a very simple predictor that is implemented entirely in integer math. In its "fast" mode the prediction is simply the arithmetic extrapolation of the previous two samples.