[Flac-dev] floating point

[Brian Willoughby]

On Aug 7, 2009, at 20:58, Martin Leese wrote:
> "Didier Dambrin" <didid at skynet.be> wrote:
> ...
>> I like FLAC on the paper because of its metadata preservation, in  
>> that riff
>> tag, which is critical for my needs.
>
> Try using WavPack, http://www.wavpack.com/
>
> This can losslessly compress 32-bit floating
> point WAVE-EX files, and faithfully preserves
> every chunk (which FLAC does not do).  It is
> also free.


Your statement is misleading as written.  It should say

> Try using WavPack, http://www.wavpack.com/
>
> This can losslessly compress 32-bit floating
> point WAVE-EX files (which FLAC does not do), and faithfully preserves
> every chunk (which FLAC does do perfectly).  It is also free.


Brian