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Announcing General Availability of Windows MIDI Services, with support for MIDI 1.0 and 2.0
We’re excited to announce that Windows 11 now supports both MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0 through Windows MIDI Services!
We’ve been working on MIDI over the past several years, completely rewriting decades of MIDI 1.0 code on Windows to both support MIDI 2.0 and make MIDI 1.0 amazing. This new combined stack is called “Windows MIDI Services.”
The Windows MIDI Services core components are built into Windows 11, rolling out through a phased enablement process now to in-support retail releases of Windows 11. This includes all the infrastructure needed to bring more features to existing MIDI 1.0 apps, and also support apps using MIDI 2.0 through our new Windows MIDI Services App SDK.

All of your existing MIDI 1.0-aware software just got even better, without needing any app updates!

New Windows MIDI Services core features:

• Use a MIDI device from multiple apps
• Customize your MIDI endpoints
• Connect apps with built-in loopback and app-to-app MIDI
• Use any device with any app with automatic MIDI 2.0 translation and scaling
• Get tighter message timing with timestamps and scheduled messages
• Use new devices with the new MIDI 1.0 and MIDI 2.0 USB class driver

Source: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2026/02/17/making-music-with-midi-just-got-a-real-boost-in-windows-11/
Git: https://github.com/microsoft/midi#readme

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In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud:



https://www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-a-blind-test-audiophiles-couldnt-tell-the-difference-between-audio-signals-sent-through-copper-wire-a-banana-or-wet-mud-the-mud-should-sound-perfectly-awful-but-it-doesnt-notes-the-experiment-creator

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A new version appeared a week ago:
Release 5.9.0 - January 16, 2026
                 
 WavPack Library Source Code - 5.9.0
 wavpack.exe (command-line encoder) - 5.9.0
 wvunpack.exe (command-line decoder) - 5.9.0
 wvgain.exe (command-line ReplayGain scanner) - 5.9.0
 wvtag.exe (command-line tagging utility) - 5.9.0
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•   added: new feature to wvtag to copy tags from one WavPack file to another
•   improved: minor tweaks to the new DNS (dynamic noise shaping) algorithm
•   improved: better handling of specfic non-standard WAV and AIFF files
•   improved: added CI (GitHub Actions) and fixed a few minor build issues
•   fixed: --pause option failed in many situations (Windows-only feature)
•   fixed: issues related to encoding from an unknown length (e.g., pipes)
•   fixed: several fuzzer-revealed issues related to multithreading
•   fixed: potential buffer overruns in WavpackOpenRawDecoder()

Downloads: https://www.wavpack.com/downloads.html#binaries
Website: https://www.wavpack.com