Re: [SoX-users] wavpack ???

[Chris B. <ch...@cn...>]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 08:12:24AM -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> 
> 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....

And a small tidbit, flac support showed up in SoX finally about
the time that /usr/lib/*FLAC* started showing something on Linux
from a default install.

I didn't check what is depending on it but I notice that
/usr/lib/*wavpak* is turning up on my system as well and I
didn't ask for it specifically.

Thats some pretty good indication of its popularity.  Never used
the format myself.

Chris