Wow. Excellent news, both of them. What advantages will 4.2 bring over the current beta version?

This has already been answered (partially in this thread even).

Radetz..

Oh, not quite. Thanks anyway, though . But using multiple codecs is really what I'm trying to avoid. I was just seeing if anyone knew a way to

a. convert my flacs over to wavpack hybrid (ok, I guess I'm just being lazy, I can use Foobar for that).

b. a commandline for EAC that will allow me to create hybrid files (If there isn't a "general standard" for this, then maybe there should be one.) If I'm not mistaken, there's some sort of conflict between the way EAC names files and how Wavpack names the hybrid files.

Doesn't 4.2 support builtin APE tagging? I seem to recall that as being one of the additions.

I'm sorry that this information is not easy to find, but here are two posts of mine that will help with making EAC and WavPack play nice together. The first is from when I added a third filename option to make hybrid mode work with EAC:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....ndpost&p=239544

Later, I added tag functionality so that wapet was no longer required:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....ndpost&p=251282

Hope this helps, and I plan on getting this type of information all together in one spot.

Actually, dBpowerAMP has great support for WavPack!

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-wavpack.htm

Unfortunately, WavPack 4.2 won't really have anything new compared to the last beta (which seems to be pretty robust).

However, there have been some improvements in the source (like support for tag creation and 64-bit compilers) and I have just added a new flag to the decoder library for decoding from streams that was required for Matroska, so it seemed like a good time for a real release. And, of course, Kuniklo's xmms plugin will be included.

Is that finished now? Super !
Linux source package will also be updated to 4.2, I reckon...?

I didn't noticed this before, very happy to hear it... Thanks Bryan...
Best regards

PS: Excuse my curiousness, can i ask you your Wiki name overthere (at Rbx)? Are you "ChristianGmeiner"?

No, but I was in e-mail contact with him during his work on the original WavPack port.

I have not joined in on IRC yet, but I have e-mailed some of the other guys there.


Of course...

Thank you Bryant, thats exactly what I wanted to know. I'll be sure to try it soon. Your help, and great work, is much appreciated .

@Bryant
Just before you launch 4.2, I'd like to to make a little suggestion for wvunpack (and fb2k plugin). IIRC, both the hybrid and the correction have to be in the same folder so that the file is treated as lossless. Would it be possible to introduce an option/switch to specify a custom source directory for the correction files, even if they aren't on the same folder? That could be useful for people that burn the wvc's to CD-Rs, but leave the hybrids on the computer, so that they don't have to copy the files over to play or convert (just pop the disk in and you have all the sonic completeness of the CD). Also, it would be nice for people with external USB2 hard drives: plug it in, you have lossless; plug it out and have a transparent HQ decent-sized lossy.
If there is such an option already that has somehow eluded me, I'd like to hear it.

I will now switch to Hybrid-mode because I can have ALL my CDs in superb quality on my HD at once and still transcode to MP3 for my portable
Nice to use dbpowerAMP for transcoding from ALAC to Wavpack