WavPack 4.0 Beta Release 2, including sources Options

[bryant]

The second beta release of WavPack 4.0 includes the following:

• stable format (beta1 files okay too; beta1 decoder obsolete)
• decodes and plays legacy WavPack files (vers 1.0 to 3.97)
• sources available with new decoding library

download win32 executables plus winamp2/5 & foobar2000 plugins
download sources

This post has been edited by bryant: May 14 2004, 08:06

[aabxx]

I tried the new asymmetrical encoding... very slow to encode, but
should according to readme not affect decode-time. Every encoder is
set to max compression.

A typical modern pop song: 34 468 604 bytes
Flac : 23 215 157 bytes (48,475% compression)
Old Wavpack : 22 776 702 bytes (51,333% compression)
New Wavpack : 20 465 194 bytes (68,425% compression)

Expect the monkey audios and optimfrogs of this world to easily beat
the new wavpack, at least at higher settings, but compared to its main
competitor and open source colleague FLAC and the old version it's looking
good! Besides it's all about the hybrid mode hehe ;)

But this could have been a fluke, of course ;) Hopefully someone will
do thorough testing on it soon, including decode-times.