Synthetic Soul has an excellent batch file for verifying WavPack files here. I am wondering if there is such a batch file or shortcut method to use on the excellent wvgain executable. Does anyone have any tricks they use with wvgain that they can share?

Thanks,

Scott

Well I use Monkey's Audio Frontend for encoding WAVs to WVs. Before that I used a command prompt and dragged the file into it. Basically not a big difference, but the MA GUI is better when I encode a lot of files and it supports multiple encoding sessions (for multi-processor systems like my P4-HT).

EDIT: If you want to change/add the external encoder settings for wavpack, you can edit "C:\Program Files\Monkey's Audio\External\WavPack.apx". The format based on XML.

But I'm also interested in a more suited frontend for wavpack, something like "FLAC Frontend" for FLAC.exe.

Good call. I use Speek's Multi-frontend, which is excellent and does everything that I don't use Foobar for. The WavPack frontend is great, but Multi lets you tag at the same time, so it accomplishes 2 of the 4 tasks I need with every encode:

1. encode (duh)
2. tag
3. verify
4. ReplayGain

I am learning software development right now, so if I don't see a front end that will do all three of these anytime soon my first project will be a WavPack all-in-one that will accomplish these 4 tasks. Just like the Flac frontend you mentioned. It is perfect, we just need a WavPack version now!

Scott

p.s. When I feel I am competent enough to undertake such a task I will be looking for input and help here, of course

Speek's BatchEnc is exactly the frontend that you are looking for: http://members.home.nl/w.speek/batchenc.htm.

I use it with the following command line for album replaygain:

wvgain -al <allfiles>

where 'a' is for album replaygain and 'l' uses low processor priority.

oh man, right in front of me the whole time (big fan of Speek's frontends). Thanks Deep_Elem!

If you need a simple alternative, I have a batch file for this also.

You can pass it one file, a folder, or a list of files, i.e.:

WV-GAIN.BAT "C:\My Music\One.wv"

WV-GAIN.BAT "C:\My Music"

WV-GAIN.BAT "C:\My Music\One.wv" "C:\My Music\Two.wv" "C:\My Music\Three.wv"

Of course, it's main purpose is to provide a simple drag'n'drop interface to WVGAIN, which I assume you already get with BatchEnc. It's there in case, anyway.

Synthetic Soul, thanks a lot -- now there are two options instead of the zero I thought were available just two days ago.