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WavPack 5.8 Lossless Audio Compression Tools Now Enable Multi-Threading By Default
The open-source WavPack lossless audio compression format is out with a new release today for this BSD-licensed software around this audio code container.
The performance gains have paid off and it's proven worthwhile so it now is promoted to being enabled by default unless the new "--no-threads" argument is used. WavPack 5.8 also delivers on:"Much of the development for this release stemmed from the discovery of situations where the quantization noise introduced with the hybrid mode was higher than expected, in particular with very low bitrates (e.g., < 3 bps) and high sample rates. Also, audio samples were discovered where the DNS (dynamic noise shaping) algorithm produced sub-optimal shaping, and this has been addressed with an all-new DNS algorithm.
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