WavPack 4.50

4.7 out of 5 stars 4.7 (90 votes)

(June 18, 2008)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Freeware / 6,607 downloads

WavPack allows you to losslessly compress (and restore) both 16 and 24-bit audio files in the .WAV format. Unlike "lossy" compression schemes (like MP3) that discard information, WavPack converts the audio data into a more compact form so that the restored files are digitally identical to the original source. It's somewhat like the file compression portion of WinZIP except that because WinZIP is designed for other types of files, it works very poorly on audio data. Like other lossless compression schemes the data reduction varies with the source, but it is generally between 25% and 50% for typical popular music and somewhat better than that for classical music and other sources with greater dynamic range.

  • Publisher

    David

  • Homepage

    WavPack

  • Latest Changes

    - Dynamic noise shaping for improved hybrid lossy quality

    - --channel-order option to reorder nonconforming multichannel files

    - --merge-blocks option to optimize compression of lossyWAV output files

    - Completely new Winamp plugin with many improvements (and a real installer)

    - And other changes

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  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    Blaxima

    Reviewing 4.50 (Jun 18, 2008)

    woo hoo, the best gets better.

    I really wish it would get more support because it is clearly the best choice still for perfect compression

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    oomingmak

    Reviewing 4.42 Alpha 2 (Nov 5, 2007)

    Love it.

    My favourite lossless audio compressor.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    horsecharles

    Reviewing 4.42 Alpha 2 (Nov 2, 2007)

    FYI-- no go on Vista. Just a heads up, not a complaint-- as per Supported OS.

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    fss69

    Reviewing 4.42 Alpha (Sep 14, 2007)

    Underrated format. In my experience, it compresses faster and better than FLAC.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    ghammer

    Reviewing 4.42 Alpha (Sep 13, 2007)

    Jotti, VirusTotal, and Virus.org did not find anything in this file.

    Wavpack is great and just gets better. Lossless is lossless for sound quality, but this is hard to beat for compression and for speed.

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