Re: [SoX-users] wavpack ???

[Kevin C. <ke...@co...>]

On 20 March 2008 at 16:31, "Dat Head" <dat...@gm...> wrote:

> i've never heard of wavpack but was an interesting read of their
> webpage, but it appears flac already does all of this and sox does
> support flac.
> 
> anybody know some pros/cons to wavpack vs flac?   i am a very
> satisfied flac user - converting my entire archives over to it (over
> 1.5TB already)

WavPack supports 32-bit floating point WAV file compression, which is 
the native format of Ardour.  FLAC doesn't support 32-bit floating 
point WAV file compression.

The history of SoX is that it supports conversion between just about 
anything and anything else.  Leaving out X because it already 
supports Y seems counter to this.

Cheers....
 
--
Kevin