WavPack 4.0 Beta Release 2
Reply #15 –
What about seeking? I remember version 3.97 had some seeking problems in winamp.
WavPack 4.0 is intended to eliminate all of the shortcomings of the previous
WavPack, the most obvious of which is the slow seeking.
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First of all, the new WavPack format is block oriented, which facilitates fast
seeking. Also, since each block is independently decodable, the format is
streamable and inherently error-resistant (although the decoder and winamp
plugin do not yet take advantage of this). In fact, the blocks can be separated
and embedded into another container format and still be decoded transparently
by the Wvunpack program!