On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 08:12:24AM -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
>
> On 20 March 2008 at 16:31, "Dat Head" <
dathead2@...> wrote:
>
> > i've never heard of wavpack but was an interesting read of their
> > webpage, but it appears flac already does all of this and sox does
> > support flac.
> >
> > anybody know some pros/cons to wavpack vs flac? i am a very
> > satisfied flac user - converting my entire archives over to it (over
> > 1.5TB already)
>
> WavPack supports 32-bit floating point WAV file compression, which is
> the native format of Ardour. FLAC doesn't support 32-bit floating
> point WAV file compression.
>
> The history of SoX is that it supports conversion between just about
> anything and anything else. Leaving out X because it already
> supports Y seems counter to this.
>
> Cheers....
And a small tidbit, flac support showed up in SoX finally about
the time that /usr/lib/*FLAC* started showing something on Linux
from a default install.
I didn't check what is depending on it but I notice that
/usr/lib/*wavpak* is turning up on my system as well and I
didn't ask for it specifically.
Thats some pretty good indication of its popularity. Never used
the format myself.
Chris
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