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lobo85:
Hi I was wondering how to properly set up an external wavpack encoder for DSD compression while preserving metadata in Media Center as there is currently no native encoder included in the Mac version. Anyone know how?

bryant:
I'm not sure of the best way to do this encoding on a Mac. On the WavPack website you can download the command-line encoder for Mac (here) and use that to encode DFF and DSF files to WavPack-DSD, and you can use the --import-id3 option to bring in the tags on DSF files (although the number of fields is somewhat limited).

You should also be able to use MC to transfer the metadata over if it's missing. But I have not experimented with that.

Hope this helps!

lobo85:
I tried this on the Mac with command line and the resulting files are not imported or seen as audio by MC same with the ones I made on a PC using Batch Encoder

bryant:
I just tried 23.0.13 for Mac and can verify that WavPack DSD files are not recognized. I tried the DSD file in the latest WavPack test suite.

This works fine on the latest Windows version, so it should be pretty easy to fix. Perhaps libwavpack was not built with ENABLE_DSD defined?

bryant:
I just verified that 23.0.20 fixes this issue on Macs. WavPack DSD files are fully playable.

Thanks guys!

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