WavPack

This is essentially a maintenance release of WavPack as there have been no significant defects fixed or features added. However, it’s been a year since 5.8.0, and there have been a number of minor fixes and enhancements.

Probably the most significant feature is the added ability of the wvtag application to copy existing tags verbatim from one WavPack file to another, which is something that...

This release was replaced after a couple days by 5.8.1 that had a few fixes for Linux and MacOS, but there were no changes to the Windows version or executables. For the full description see the 5.8.1 release.

To keep everything consistent this placeholder release will remain with just the Windows executables.

This dot release replaces 5.8.0 that was missing a couple CMake files in the tarball and the multicore detection did not compile on MacOS and other BSDs. Because the Windows executables were not affected I will not be updating them.

Much of the development for this release stemmed from the discovery of situations where the quantization noise introduced with the hybrid mode was higher than e...

The featured enhancement for this release is the addition of multithreaded operation to the WavPack library code (libwavpack). This can significantly speed up decoding and encoding operations, sometimes as much as 6X or more (assuming a multi-core CPU). An option was added to the command-line programs to utilize this (--threads) and the Cool Edit / Audition plugin was updated also. Clients of...

One of the obvious omissions in previous WavPack versions was not accepting Apple's ubiquitous AIFF audio format as a source, and this has been remedied in WavPack 5.6.0. Also there is improved handling of PCM files that claim to be a non-whole-byte depth (e.g., 12-bit) but aren't actually (i.e., they have non-zero "padding" bits).

The cmake support has been greatly improved, including buil...