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Title: FLAC vs. Wavpack
Post by: Humbledore on May 27, 2013, 10:15:35 am

Hi,
regarding the choice between lossless formats; are there any important pros and cons differences between FLAC- and Wavpack files, except for the Wavpack hybrid option?
Thanks!

Title: Re: FLAC vs. Wavpack
Post by: 6233638 on May 27, 2013, 10:46:37 am

Most lossless formats are within about 5% of each other as far as compression is concerned.
How fast it is to compress/decompress can vary quite a bit though.

FLAC/ALAC are the most popular formats because they have good metadata support, and wide hardware support.

I use ALAC because I have a number of Apple devices, and this allows me to copy/stream files on to them without conversion.
Really, that is all that matters—they all sound the same.

As for hybrid lossless/lossy formats, I actually dislike this. I want the format I am using to only support lossless audio.

Title: Re: FLAC vs. Wavpack
Post by: Humbledore on May 27, 2013, 11:00:51 am

Thanks, pretty much as I expected then...

Title: Re: FLAC vs. Wavpack
Post by: jesseinsf on August 27, 2017, 03:35:18 pm

Can someone please answer this questions instead of ranting on about what they prefer and like?