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Wavpack - A Few Questions
« on: January 20, 2025, 09:11:44 am »
Thinking about using wavpack, but don't know much about it other than it can save some space.  Seems to work fine with JRiver but ...

Any issues with it to watch out for?

What is best tag format to use i.e. IDV3, APE, etc? 

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Re: Wavpack - A Few Questions
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2025, 09:25:47 am »
I wrote Monkey's Audio (APE). The latest support is of course always in Media Center.

I'm a big fan of WavPack. It's written by a really great guy David Bryant. It uses APEv2 tags.

FLAC has a big following as well.
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Re: Wavpack - A Few Questions
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2025, 09:27:15 am »
Really the only issue to lookout for is if you use mobile devices or anything like that, as WavPack support may or may not be present versus a more "mainstream" format like FLAC. If you do all your listening on a PC/Mac with MC that really shouldn't be an issue then.

It's all down to personal preference anyways.
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Re: Wavpack - A Few Questions
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2025, 09:45:37 am »
Sounds like wavpack will be perfect for me. 

Also, one of the advantages I've found with wavpack is that tagging seems to be better supported than with wav files. 


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Re: Wavpack - A Few Questions
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2025, 10:09:08 am »
WAV files have pretty limited metadata support, so indeed WavPack will have much, much better tagging capabilities.
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