Archive for the tag 'WavPack'

Jul 27 2007

Audio News You Can Use

It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the world of digital audio: Hydrogen Audio is even more abuzz than normal.

Exact Audio Copy v0.99 prebeta 1

Exact Audio Copy

André has released a new version of Exact Audio Copy. A high-level changelog is as follows:

  • Better…

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Dec 11 2006

VLC Media Player 0.8.6

VLC Media Player

Very likely the last incremental release before the all-important v0.9.0, the VideoLan project has released v0.8.6 of its cross-platform media player, VLC. This is one of those products that highlights what’s good about the open-source world: a really high-quality, useful…

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Nov 20 2006

Lossless Audio Shootout!

On the heels of my recent comparison of general-purpose data compressors, I bring you the results of far too much time spent hunched in front of a command line, calculating ratios.

The benchmark’s ostensible purpose, at least at first, was to…

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Oct 10 2006

Audio Utilities

Last update: 1 August 2007

Ripping Utilities

CDexCDex
License: Open Source
Description: CDex is a small utility whose primary purpose is ripping CD audio to MP3s. CDex’s magic comes in its extras, however. It has the ability to rip to WAV files, rip partial WAVs/MP3s, and do…

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