[LAD] new lossless/lossy audio compressor

[Paul Winkler]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 09:35:27AM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:19:03PM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
> > I'd love to be able to write an archive script for Ardour sessions
> > that compresses the audio data losslessly, but FLAC won't do it.
> 
> WavPack does it.
> http://www.wavpack.com/

So it does! Thanks. That's the first lossless encoder I've tried that
"just works" with Ardour's float files.  Well, aside from gzip and
bzip2 of course, but from a quick test, wavpack encodes much faster
and compresses much better.  Decoding is slower than gzip but much
faster than bunzip2.

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Paul Winkler
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