Michgelsen
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I noticed there's an exciting new feature in version 1.3.13 beta: "Enabled WavPack 5 DSD decoding."
For DSD-playing folks, this means that foobar can now use the new DSD features of WavPack, so that WavPack can be used as one format for both PCM and DSD files, with tagging support. The latest version 5 of WavPack, which is still under development, has a new lossless DSD compressor. See here: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,112529.0.html .
Previously, you could either use Sony's .dsf format, which doesn't support DST compression but can be tagged, or Philips' .dff format, which can't be tagged but can be compressed with DST. Now you can have DSD files with both compression and tags, in the WavPack format.
Did anybody try it yet? I haven't, but am excited nonetheless. I hope foobar will soon support WavPack's DSD encoding part too.
For DSD-playing folks, this means that foobar can now use the new DSD features of WavPack, so that WavPack can be used as one format for both PCM and DSD files, with tagging support. The latest version 5 of WavPack, which is still under development, has a new lossless DSD compressor. See here: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,112529.0.html .
Previously, you could either use Sony's .dsf format, which doesn't support DST compression but can be tagged, or Philips' .dff format, which can't be tagged but can be compressed with DST. Now you can have DSD files with both compression and tags, in the WavPack format.
Did anybody try it yet? I haven't, but am excited nonetheless. I hope foobar will soon support WavPack's DSD encoding part too.