WavPack 4.60 Released, open-source lossless (and hybrid) audio compressor |
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WavPack 4.60 Released, open-source lossless (and hybrid) audio compressor |
 Sep 28 2009, 00:47
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 WavPack Developer Group: Developer (Donating) Posts: 1219 Joined: 3-January 02 From: San Francisco CA Member No.: 900  |
Major changes:
WavPack download page Thanks for all your support!  |
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Sep 28 2009, 00:53
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 Group: Super Moderator Posts: 3268 Joined: 26-July 02 From: princegeorge.ca Member No.: 2796 |
A new version of my favourite lossless format is always good news! Thanks for all your efforts, bryant.
-------------------- (atrix|(fb2k->e-mu 0404 usb|audio 8 dj))->hd280|jvc ha-fx35-b
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Sep 28 2009, 01:12
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Just dropping in to say a big thanks as well for the continued development of such a great format.
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Sep 28 2009, 02:31
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Group: Members Posts: 43 Joined: 15-November 05 Member No.: 25786 |
Keep up the good work, David! Thanks for continuing to work on WavPack!
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Sep 28 2009, 09:01
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Thanks!
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Sep 28 2009, 10:51
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My favorite lossless codec! Thank you.
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Sep 28 2009, 11:54
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 Group: Members Posts: 1037 Joined: 23-May 02 From: DE Member No.: 2107 |
that's so cool now:
Cover Front/Back, Cuesheet, Log, MD5, Replaygain, Lossless Format ===> Everything in One File. Packed in with only one cmd-switch and packed out with only one cmd-switch. can't get any better  thanks |
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Sep 28 2009, 17:11
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 Group: Members (Donating) Posts: 429 Joined: 5-September 04 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 16796 |
Go, WavPack!
 Thank you, bryant! 
-------------------- Clowns love haircuts; so should Lee Marvin's valet.
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Sep 28 2009, 20:17
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Group: Members (Donating) Posts: 69 Joined: 13-May 05 From: Dublin, Ireland Member No.: 22024 |
Congratulations David on the new release!
And thanks for all your hard work
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Sep 28 2009, 20:24
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Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 19-September 06 From: Trondheim Member No.: 35393 |
QUOTE (Xenion @ Sep 28 2009, 04:54)  Cover Front/Back, Cuesheet, Log, MD5, Replaygain, Lossless Format ===> Everything in One File. How do you do that? I am ripping LP's with Adobe Audition, and I want to archive the wav as wavpack with the cuesheet and album art embedded. Wavpack is the only compressed format that I have tried that preserves the track markers from Audition. I make a cuesheet-file with cuelist-tool that refers to the wav. I suppose I can just edit it in a text editor so that it refers to the wavpack instead. But how do I embed the cuesheet? And how do I embed album art? My current tools doesn't seem to work - Foobar, CueTools, MP3Tag etc. Any easy way? I am not so eager to use a command-line input. |
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Sep 28 2009, 20:33
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Group: Members Posts: 69 Joined: 7-January 06 Member No.: 26940 |
Isn't it a waste of space to include binary data such as covers into individual tracks? In many cases it also doen not make too much sence to put ARTIST info since you actually don't know who is playing on the actual tracks... many times it does not say this on the covers...
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Sep 28 2009, 21:48
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Group: Members Posts: 1078 Joined: 16-April 04 From: Bavaria, Germany Member No.: 13548 |
I doubt that about 150kb for an embedded cover is that much waste of space...
(less than 0.01% of a typical wavpack file size) |
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Sep 28 2009, 21:49
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Let's keep this on-topic please.
-------------------- Everything sounds the same until it is proven otherwise.
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Oct 1 2009, 14:36
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Group: Members Posts: 1037 Joined: 23-May 02 From: DE Member No.: 2107 |
QUOTE (Trondis @ Sep 28 2009, 21:24) QUOTE (Xenion @ Sep 28 2009, 04:54) Cover Front/Back, Cuesheet, Log, MD5, Replaygain, Lossless Format ===> Everything in One File. How do you do that? wavpack -m -t -w "CUESHEET=@*.cue" -w "LOG=@*.log" --write-binary-tag "Cover Art (Front)=@Front.jpg" in my case |
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Oct 4 2009, 17:25
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 Group: Members Posts: 49 Joined: 26-March 03 From: Phoenix, AZ Member No.: 5688 |
Decided to stop in to say thanks for continuing to develop basically the best lossless format in the world, and for keeping it free.
Cheers Dhry -------------------- Dean-Ryan Stone
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Oct 5 2009, 16:38
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WavPack Developer Group: Developer (Donating) Posts: 1219 Joined: 3-January 02 From: San Francisco CA Member No.: 900 |
Thanks everyone!
Unfortunately, a bug has been discovered here where if you try to add more than 1 MB of tag data to a WavPack file (from at least 2 binary files) you will not get an error and yet the tags will not be readable (by WavPack, anyway). I have fixed this in SVN and it's serious enough (I think) that a 4.60.1 release is justified. I'll wait a few more days for anything else to pop up, and then do it. In the meantime, be careful when appending multiple large binary tags! David |
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Nov 16 2009, 18:39
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 Group: Members Posts: 191 Joined: 4-January 02 From: USA Member No.: 912 |
QUOTE (bryant @ Oct 5 2009, 10:38) Thanks everyone! Unfortunately, a bug has been discovered here where if you try to add more than 1 MB of tag data to a WavPack file (from at least 2 binary files) you will not get an error and yet the tags will not be readable (by WavPack, anyway). I have fixed this in SVN and it's serious enough (I think) that a 4.60.1 release is justified. I'll wait a few more days for anything else to pop up, and then do it. In the meantime, be careful when appending multiple large binary tags! David It's been more than a month since you wrote this, but the website says that 4.60 is still the last version. Did this end up being more of a problem than you expected? |
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Nov 17 2009, 07:27
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WavPack Developer Group: Developer (Donating) Posts: 1219 Joined: 3-January 02 From: San Francisco CA Member No.: 900 |
QUOTE (Agent69 @ Nov 16 2009, 10:39) It's been more than a month since you wrote this, but the website says that 4.60 is still the last version. Did this end up being more of a problem than you expected? I did fix this right away, and I also found and fixed another bug that could cause crashing when decoding very old (pre-4.0) WavPack files. Then, with Benski's help, I added embedded album art support to the winamp plugin, which I thought was a nice compliment to the new embedded album art support in the command-line encoder. If things go well I will try to get the release done this weekend...thanks for reminding me.
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Nov 23 2009, 18:14
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Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: 24-November 07 Member No.: 49012 |
QUOTE (bryant @ Nov 17 2009, 15:27) If things go well I will try to get the release done this weekend...thanks for reminding me. http://svn.slomosnail.de/wavpack/trunk/ChangeLog QUOTE Release 4.60.1 - November 22, 2009 I'm sorry if my post is untimely. I found that "wvunpack -cc" extracts "cuesheet.txt" for all WavPack files (except the first one) when used with Speek's frontend. It seems this is because the replacement code "%a" is not designed for "*" or "@list". Here are my test results for cue_sheet.wv in the test suite.
P.S. Maybe it's not bad for WvGain to have "--help" or "-t"? CODE WAVPACK WVUNPACK WVGAIN
Audition -a album mode -a blindly decode -b hybrid -bn block size --blocksize=n hybrid -c cuesheet -c clean values -c hybrid -cc cuesheet -cc channel order --channel-order=<list> delete source -d -d display values -d self-extracting -e fast -f high -h high -hh help --help --help ignore length -i ignore .wvc -i -i joint-stereo -jn lower priority -l -l -l MD5 -m -m merge blocks --merge-blocks quantization noise -n new files only -n don't recode to UTF-8 --no-utf8-convert --no-utf8-convert optimization for mono --optimize-mono practical float storage -p unassigned to stereo --pair-unassigned-chans quiet -q -q -q new RIFF wav header -r raw audio decode -r raw pcm --raw-pcm raw pcm --raw-pcm=sr,bps,ch display summary/values -s -s start at sample/time --skip=[sample|time] noise shaping -sn display summary -ss time stamp -t -t stop at sample/time --until=[+|-][sample|time] dynamic noise shaping --use-dns verify -v regenerate .wav header -w write text metadata -w "Field=Value" write text metadata -w "Field=@file.ext" write binary metadata --write-binary-tag "Field=@file.ext" extra -x[n] extract tag field -x "Field" extract tag field -xx "Field[=file]" yes -y -y |
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Nov 23 2009, 20:03
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Group: Members Posts: 99 Joined: 11-May 09 Member No.: 69698 |
Yeah the latest version is still 4.60 at your website. Is version 4.60.1 will be released soon?
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Nov 24 2009, 07:51
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WavPack Developer Group: Developer (Donating) Posts: 1219 Joined: 3-January 02 From: San Francisco CA Member No.: 900 |
QUOTE (houyhnhnm @ Nov 23 2009, 10:14) I'm sorry if my post is untimely. I found that "wvunpack -cc" extracts "cuesheet.txt" for all WavPack files (except the first one) when used with Speek's frontend. It seems this is because the replacement code "%a" is not designed for "*" or "@list". Actually your post is very timely because I tried to finish the release last night, but didn't! So now all I have to do is fix this bug you found and update the changelog rather than do another release... BTW, thanks for the very detailed description...I really appreciate you bringing this to my attention. By "-t" for wvgain I assume you mean to leave the timestamps the same (because there's not really anything to copy them from). Yeah, I agree, that would be nice. David |
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Nov 24 2009, 07:54
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WavPack Developer Group: Developer (Donating) Posts: 1219 Joined: 3-January 02 From: San Francisco CA Member No.: 900 |
QUOTE (Seeking_Lossless @ Nov 23 2009, 12:03) Yeah the latest version is still 4.60 at your website. Is version 4.60.1 will be released soon? My best guess at this point is next weekend, but at least it won't need to be 4.60.2!
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Nov 24 2009, 15:53
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Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: 24-November 07 Member No.: 49012 |
Thanks for the reply.
QUOTE (bryant @ Nov 24 2009, 15:51) By "-t" for wvgain I assume you mean to leave the timestamps the same (because there's not really anything to copy them from). Oh yes! I'm glad my words made sense. |
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Dec 2 2009, 07:51
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WavPack Developer Group: Developer (Donating) Posts: 1219 Joined: 3-January 02 From: San Francisco CA Member No.: 900 |
I have released 4.60.1 to correct a few issues found in 4.60.0 and also to add a couple minor things:
Complete change list WavPack download page Thanks again everyone for your patience!
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Dec 2 2009, 15:48
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Group: Members Posts: 1018 Joined: 4-January 09 Member No.: 65169 |
I waited for that update very eagerly, so thank you very much, bryant.
QUOTE added versioning information to the Windows DLL (through properties) In my eyes a great and very usefully new feature!QUOTE allowed creation of APEv2 tags > 1 MB (which we can't read) If I want to add several pictures: which maximal file size limit I should bear in mind now?Sorry for my English. |
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