Major changes:

• binary tag support (for cover art)
• support for up to 256 channels
• raw PCM input

Complete change list

WavPack download page

Thanks for all your support!

A new version of my favourite lossless format is always good news! Thanks for all your efforts, bryant.

Just dropping in to say a big thanks as well for the continued development of such a great format.

Keep up the good work, David! Thanks for continuing to work on WavPack!

Thanks!

My favorite lossless codec! Thank you.

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

Go, WavPack!


Thank you, bryant!

Congratulations David on the new release!

And thanks for all your hard work

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.

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...

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)

Let's keep this on-topic please.

wavpack -m -t -w "CUESHEET=@*.cue" -w "LOG=@*.log" --write-binary-tag "Cover Art (Front)=@Front.jpg"

in my case

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

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?

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.

Only added: API for reading & writing binary fields in APEv2 tags is new feature