Released: May 8, 2007
Publisher's Description:
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. It's somewhat like the file compression portion of WinZIP except that because WinZIP is designed for other types of files, it works very poorly on audio data. Like other lossless compression schemes the data reduction varies with the source, but it is generally between 25% and 50% for typical popular music and somewhat better than that for classical music and other sources with greater dynamic range.
Latest Changes:
* Added: create wavpackdll.dll for Windows (not used yet)
* Fixed: corrupt floating-point audio on big-endian machines
* Fixed: put MSVC projects in their own subdir (fixed build problems)
* Fixed: limit RIFF data buffering to 16 MB to prevent out-of-memory crash
* Improved: attempt to mute errors when decoding corrupt legacy WavPack files
* Improved: overall performance enhancements of 10% to 30% (depending on mode)
* Added: MMX intrinsics for 24-bit (and higher) stereo encoding
License: Freeware
OS Support: Windows (All)
File Size: 327 KB
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