On 04/01/2010 12:28 AM, Philipp wrote: > Excerpts from torbenh's message of 2010-03-31 18:22:55 +0200: > >> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 09:04:10AM -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote: >> >>> On 31 March 2010 at 17:57, Philipp<hollunder@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> wavpack is BSD licensed, it's just not as well known as flac. >>>> wavpack does support 32bit float while flac doesn't afaik, and >>>> there are some more differences but it may not matter in this >>>> case. Both are lossless and free. >>>> >>> Does this help? >>> >>> http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html#general__samples >>> >> i know, that flac only compresses .wav >> its a .gig file. >> >> not sure if wavpack compresses arbitrary binaries. >> > Well, wavpack is also designed for lossless audio. If the whole .gig is > compressed as such then I'd use a generic format, maybe .xz aka. lzma2. > > wavpack only has 'raw-pcm' options which obviously refer to pcm data. > > I don't know how .gig works and whether the samples and the > meta-information can be split/joined easily. Probably not worth the > trouble. > That's more what I was thinking, bzip or lzma, How well supported are these on windows or osx? I haven't used win for 6 years or so.. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
