# WAV Alternatives

I wanted to use .wav for lossless uncompressed audio format. But s
oon I realized .wav is not open and free. IBM & MS control it.

So I searched free alternatives. The obvious answers were FLAC (.f
lac) and WavPack (.wv). It was unfortunate that no uncompressed al
ternative exists. No, PCM didn't work.

I chose WavPack rather than FLAC. Because it supports 32bit. And t
here is currently no FLAC encoder / decoder that support 32bit. Fo
r frequency, WavPack supports even up to 16.777216 MHz.

Here is a converting script for reference. Maybe -b:a 192k is a pl
acebo. But that placebo works for me. So why not?


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#!/usr/local/bin/rc

fn convert{
        ffmpeg -i file:$1 -c:v copy -c:a wavpack -ar 192000 -b:a 192k -compression_level 0 file:`{echo $1 | sed 's/webm/mkv/; s/(opus|wav)/wv/'}
}

for (i in $*) convert $i
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