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Excerpts from torbenh's message of 2010-03-31 18:22:55 +0200:

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> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 09:04:10AM -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:

> >

> > On 31 March 2010 at 17:57, Philipp  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.
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