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Blaxima reviewed v4.50 on Jun 18, 2008

woo hoo, the best gets better.

I really wish it would get more support because it is clearly the best choice still for perfect compression

oomingmak reviewed v4.42 Alpha 2 on Nov 5, 2007

Love it.

My favourite lossless audio compressor.

horsecharles reviewed v4.42 Alpha 2 on Nov 2, 2007

FYI-- no go on Vista. Just a heads up, not a complaint-- as per Supported OS.

fss69 reviewed v4.42 Alpha on Sep 14, 2007

Underrated format. In my experience, it compresses faster and better than FLAC.

ghammer reviewed v4.42 Alpha on Sep 13, 2007

Jotti, VirusTotal, and Virus.org did not find anything in this file.

Wavpack is great and just gets better. Lossless is lossless for sound quality, but this is hard to beat for compression and for speed.

pola reviewed v4.42 Alpha on Sep 12, 2007

the file has a virus.

Blaxima reviewed v4.41 on May 9, 2007

Finally a new release!! I just love the job Wavpack does. Compresses your audio with out any degregation (@midnighter_9999-because it's lossless) and does it in a blink of an eye.

I would suggest using it with EAC.

infectiphibian reviewed v4.41 Beta 3 on Apr 24, 2007

@yokozuna: I tried WavPackDrop with beta 3 today, it's exactly what i was looking for, i only miss an option to select "very high" preset.

yokozuna reviewed v4.41 Beta 2 on Mar 19, 2007

@infectiphibian

Please, try WavPackDrop http://www.rarewares.org...ossless/wavpackdrop.zip You need to drop wavpack.exe to the folder and voila!

JEdwardP reviewed v4.41 Beta 2 on Mar 19, 2007

The 4.41 betas introduce some speed optimizations, so the best lossless compressor just got a touch faster.

And it still is the best for now, having outstripped FLAC over a year ago. TAK will likely replace it as my lossless codec of choice by the end of the year, however.

midnighter_9999 reviewed v4.40 on Dec 12, 2006

havent tried it out yet...but does it reduce the quality of the song along with the compression???....most of my music are 160kbps

JEdwardP reviewed v4.40 on Dec 11, 2006

The re-written x-modes provide faster encoding speed, and its overall excellence continues to outstrip FLAC.

If you archive mono material, such as audiobooks, be sure to use the new --optimize-mono switch.

For those looking for a front-end, I'd strongly recommend Speek's Multi-Frontend, which although no longer developed, still works flawlessly with WavPack and several other codecs:

http://members.home.nl/w.speek/

Blaxima reviewed v4.40 on Dec 11, 2006

This IS the best lossless codec. Better compression and speed than the more popular Flac and is compatiable with just as many devices

5+*

@infectiphibian
Its best used with EAC althougth there is a NERO version available at the main site if you have and would rather use that

infectiphibian reviewed v4.40 on Dec 11, 2006

it has impressive compression but is there some gui available for us n00bs?

JEdwardP reviewed v4.4 Alpha 3 on Oct 22, 2006

When I tested the previous alpha, I didn't even realize the -x switch had been made so much faster. Not that it ever increased compression much, but in version 4.3x, it was too slow for me to even try on all but the shortest tracks.

But with the dramatic speed increase, I tried it, and it saved me 10 MB on my test album. That may not seem significant, but given the number of albums in my collection, it is.

The best just got even better.

oomingmak reviewed v4.4 Alpha 2 on Oct 20, 2006

WavPack came to my rescue when I needed to work with 32bit floats (and no other app at the time was able to).

I've always preferred WavPack to FLAC.

ghammer reviewed v4.4 Alpha 2 on Oct 20, 2006

My choice for lossless, hybrid mode is very cool.
But, I have Alpha 3 here, Alpha 2 is not the newest.

http://www.hydrogenaudio...owtopic=47389&st=25

JEdwardP reviewed v4.4 Alpha 2 on Oct 19, 2006

The "Old High" mode now gives me slightly better compression than it did in version 4.3x, and certainly better compression than the "New High" mode does, although the "New High" mode is noticably faster.

But the "Old High" mode was always very fast anyway, so I'll use this version, but I'll be sticking with the "Old High" mode (-hh switch).

WavPack remains my lossless compressor of choice, with FLAC still ranking second to it.

garethy reviewed v4.4 Alpha 2 on Oct 19, 2006

Great application for lossless I prefer WavPack over Flac. I just wish MediaMonkey supported WavPack.

wickedfeel reviewed v4.30 on Nov 8, 2005

Love me some Wavpack. Development wise, the only real choice accross the board is FLAC or Wavpack. I prefer the later.

JEdwardP reviewed v4.2 on Jul 24, 2005

For my music, at least, WavPack gives better compression than FLAC, and its Foobar plug-in gives much faster decode time than does Monkey's Audio.

I've converted all my lossless files from FLAC to WavPack, and think It'll be my preferred format for quite awhile.

adamlau reviewed v4.2 on Apr 11, 2005

Recommended audio compression utility. Combine with a PAR or ECC utilty for archiving on digital media.

ilikedirtthe2nddd reviewed v4.0 Beta Release 1 on Apr 3, 2004

the lossy mode is a really interesting alternative to psychoacoustic lossy compressors at high bitrates. lossless compression is very good, too.