Free Hybrid Lossless Audio Compression Format

Edit Package wavpack

This package is based on the package 'wavpack' from project 'openSUSE:Factory'.

WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing
lossless, high-quality lossy, and unique hybrid compression modes.
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.

By default, lossless mode WavPack acts just like a WinZip compressor
for audio files. However, unlike MP3 or WMA encoding which can affect
the sound quality, not a single bit of the original information is
lost, so there is no chance of degradation. This makes lossless mode
ideal for archiving audio material or any other situation where quality
is paramount. The compression ratio depends on the source material, but
generally is between 30% and 70%.

The hybrid mode provides all the advantages of lossless compression
with an additional bonus. Instead of creating a single file, this mode
creates both, a relatively small, high-quality lossy file that can be
used all by itself, and a "correction" file that (when combined with
the lossy file) provides full lossless restoration. For some users this
means never having to choose between lossless and lossy compression!

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baselibs.conf 0000000012 12 Bytes
wavpack-5.7.0.tar.bz2 0000946431 924 KB
wavpack.changes 0000010942 10.7 KB
wavpack.spec 0000003857 3.77 KB
Revision 40 (latest revision is 41)
Takashi Iwai's avatar Takashi Iwai (tiwai) accepted request 1158558 from Andrea Manzini's avatar Andrea Manzini (amanzini) (revision 40)
- update to 5.7.0:
  * added: multithreaded encoding and decoding to libwavpack (optional)
  * added: option to specify multithreading in CLI programs (--threads)
  * added: multithreading support to Cool Edit filter (always enabled)
  * added: support for ID3v2.4 when importing tags (--import-id3)
  * added: optional bitrate specification to wavpack -c option
  * added: recognize WAV files with new fourcc of 'BW64'
  * fixed: decode non-compliant FFmpeg files over 8 channels
  * fixed: accept some common but non-compliant AIFF files
  * fixed: automatically delete newly obsolete correction files
  * fixed: don't delete source files if data loss warnings occur
  * improved: ID3v2 tag support (more items, multiple values, pics, etc)
  * improved: compression of 32-bit integer files (--optimize-int32)
  * improved: convert the man pages to mdoc(7)
  * improved: cmake & autoconf support
- Build AVX2 enabled hwcaps library for x86_64-v3
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