WavPack-related links

WavPack Compatible Software

Name	Description
Speek's Frontend	An excellent win32 graphical frontend for WavPack that supports all the major features, and is also handy for batch operations. Highly recommended!
DirectShow filter	Thanks to the guys at CoreCodec.org and Matroska.org for their filter that allows any DirectShow compatible program (like Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, or their own The Core Media Player) to play WavPack files directly.
WMPTSE	Clever program that allows Windows Media Player and its Media Library to work seamlessly with the metadata tags on many audio formats that are not officially supported by Microsoft, including WavPack.
CheckWavpackFiles	An easy-to-use program to quickly verify individual WavPack files or whole directory trees. Just drop them in!
Foobar2000	A new, high quality audio player that supports WavPack in the normal installation. Foobar2000 has full ReplayGain support and can play all formats of WavPack files including multichannel and those with embedded cuesheets. Foobar2000 also has a powerful tag editor and music converter that work perfectly with WavPack.
Winamp	The most popular audio player can play WavPack files using the plugin available on the download page. Includes support for the Media Library and ReplayGain.
Adobe Audition	A very popular audio editor (formerly CoolEdit). The filter available on the download page not only allows loading and saving all types of WavPack files, but is the only lossless Audition filter that works with the native 32-bit data and the only one that preserves the extra information (like cues and playlists).
Steinberg WaveLab 5/6	One of the most powerful audio editors, WaveLab 5 is a complete solution for recording and mastering high resolution and multichannel audio, and can even burn CDs and DVDs directly. The WavPack plugin is the first third-party plugin to work with WaveLab and is available for download from this page. In addition, the newly released WaveLab 6 has the WavPack plugin right on the distribution CD!
The Core Media Player	This is an audio and video media center allowing you to organize and play audio and video files. It plays just about every video format around including DivX and Matroska, supports WinAmp VIS and DSP plug-ins, and has an integrated XML playlist and media manager. It was written by the same people who created the DirectShow for WavPack, and so it makes a great WavPack player also!
Apollo	A well established audio player known for its superb sound quality. Can play WavPack files using the plugin available on the download page. Includes ReplayGain support.
VUPlayer	A very nice audio player with extensive native WavPack support including playback of all WavPack formats, configurable encoding to WavPack from other audio files (or directly from CD), and tag editing. It has some cool animated VU meters too!
Ahead Nero	The most popular CD authoring tool that comes pre-packaged with many CD/DVD burners. The plugin available on the download page allows burning audio CDs directly from WavPack files, ripping CDs directly to WavPack files, and converting to and from the WavPack format.
dBpowerAMP	A popular collection of powerful tools that allow you to do just about everything with audio files. It includes a CD ripper, an audio player, a music converter, and even a utility to record from a line-input. Works great with WavPack using the codec available directly from them.
Reaper	New powerful multitrack audio recorder and editor from the creator of winamp. Reaper has native WavPack support and can even record multitrack directly to WavPack (which is great for live setups with limited storage).
Burrrn	Burrrn is a little tool for creating audio CDs with CD-Text from various audio files, including WavPack. One great feature of Burrrn is that is can burn directly from WavPack CD images with embedded cuesheets (no unpack required)!
Easy CD-DA Extractor	A great all-in-one program for ripping and burning audio CDs and converting between various audio formats. Easy CD-DA Extractor has full support for WavPack right out of the box.
jetAudio Media Player	Although it started out as a free utility with Cowon media players, jetAudio has been expanded to be a fine stand-alone audio and video media player that can also rip and burn audio CDs and convert between various audio and video formats. Version 7.0.3 includes full WavPack support.
EAC	Considered by many to be the most secure CD ripper. There is no WavPack plugin for EAC, but some special features have been added to WavPack to make it work particularly well with EAC's "external compressor" mode. Read all about it in this guide.
Mp3tag	A versatile tag editor that provides all the regular tag related functions, but also uses the WavPack library to be aware of WavPack specific information. It is also aware of and properly handles the "correction" files. Highly recommended!
Aqualung	A music player designed with perfectly gapless playback in mind, Aqualung also includes a Music Store that is an XML-based music database capable of storing various metadata about music on your computer. Aqualung supports WavPack natively and there's even a Windows version available!
Audacious	A new media player forked from the Beep Media Player, Audacious supports WavPack by default and is starting to appear in many standard Linux distros
LAMIP	A very modular audio player for Linux. The official plugin for WavPack supports all the bitdepths, multichannel and "correction" files, and can even be set up to verify the MD5 sum on every track!
XMMS	The standard Unix audio player modeled after winamp. An beta version plugin is available on the download page.
Quod Libet	This player uses the GStreamer plugin to play WavPack files and includes a powerful tag editor called Ex Falso. Has ReplayGain support and is great at managing large music libraries.
EasyTAG	This GTK+-based tag editor works with just about all types of music files (including WavPack) and it has versions available for both Linux and Windows. Be sure to get at least version 2.0.1 for WavPack support.
Cog	An audio player for Mac OS X that plays WavPack files right out of the box!
Max	A powerful audio converter plus CD ripper (with FreeDB access) for Mac OS X that handles over 20 formats, including WavPack.
Tag	A metadata editor that has an intuitive interface for making quick changes and a batch mode for making large parallel updates. Guess what else? Full WavPack support!

WavPack Compatible Hardware

Name	Description
Cowon A3 PMP	The new Cowon A3 PMP (pic) is the first commercially available PMP that natively supports WavPack playback. Moreover, it handles virtually all WavPack files (all modes, bitdepths, and sampling rates) and even handles IEEE float files and legacy WavPack files back to version 1.0! With its beautiful 800 x 480 4" LCD display and HD component output, its audio and video recording capabilities, and its superior build quality, the A3 is certainly a deserving successor to the popular A2.
Rockbox	The Rockbox group has been making open source replacement firmware for Archos portable MP3 players/recorders for years. Now they're working on the same for the iRiver H10, H1xx and H3xx series, various Apple iPod models, and various iAudio and Toshiba Gigabeat models. I've helped them get full WavPack playback support (including seeking and tags) and direct WavPack recording is working also! Although there's been no official release yet, the firmware for many models is very stable (I've been playing WavPack on my 1G Nano for a year!)
Roku PhotoBridge	Roku's PhotoBridge allows displaying digital photos on high-definition televisions and can be connected to a home network to play videos also. Now, they've opened up the firmware to third-party developers and one is available (on the download page) that plays WavPack files.

Comparisons of lossless audio codecs

Name	Description
Lossless Audio Blog	Not really a comparison, but a great central location to find out the latest news on lossless audio formats, applications, products and services. Very informative!
Hans Heijden's	A very good comparison, with graphs that clarify the efficiency of each codec
Speek's	Another very good comparison with several music albums being tested
Roberto's	An extensive comparison of codec features, including a chart summarizing the pros and cons of each
Johan's	A comparison of lossless audio compressors with ultimate filesize being the only criteria. Although this is not one of WavPack's objectives, it still fares reasonably close to the top!

General Audio Information

Name	Description
Hydrogen Audio	The audio technology enthusiast's resource includes information and forums regarding audio software and hardware, with an emphasis on audio codecs. If you have a question about WavPack or related software, this is the place to start!
RareWares	A great site for getting the latest compiles of audio codecs and other hard-to-find software, including unofficial compiles of WavPack for various platforms.
ReplayGain	Somewhat outdated, but the official source for information on the ReplayGain standard and how it is implemented.
Pitchfork	From the creative side of the family, this is my brother's personal music site with plenty of great MP3s available for free download. Hmm, is there a pattern here?