OUTPUT FORMATS¶

• Microsoft RIFF (“.wav”), force with --wav, creates RF64 if > 4 GB
• Sony Wave64 (“.w64”), force with --w64
• Apple AIFF (“.aif”), force with --aif or --aif-le
• Apple Core Audio (“.caf”), force with --caf-be or --caf-le
• Raw PCM or DSD (“.raw”), force with -r or --raw
• Philips DSDIFF (“.dff”), force with --dsdiff or --dff
• Sony DSD Stream (“.dsf”), force with --dsf

OPTIONS¶

--aif, --aif-le

force output to Apple AIFF (or AIFF-C/sowt), extension “.aif”

-b

blindly decode all stream blocks and ignore length info

-c

do not decode audio but instead just extract cuesheet stored in APEv2 tag to stdout (equivalent to -x “cuesheet”)

-cc

extract cuesheet stored in APEv2 tag to source-name.cue file in same directory as decoded audio file (equivalent to -xx “cuesheet=%a.cue”)

--caf-be, --caf-le

force output to big-endian or little-endian Core Audio, extension “.caf”

-d

delete source file if successful; use with caution!

--dff, --dsdiff

force output to Philips DSDIFF, DSD audio source only, extension “.dff”

--dsf

force output to Sony DSF, DSD audio source only, extension “.dsf”

-f

do not decode audio but simply display summary information about WavPack file to stdout in a machine-parsable format (see doc/wavpack_doc.html or cli/wvunpack.c for details)

--help

display extended help

-i

ignore .wvc file (forces hybrid lossy decompression)

-m

calculate and display MD5 signature; verify if lossless

-n

no audio decoding (use with -xx to extract tags only)

--normalize-floats

normalize float audio to +/-1.0 if it isn't normalized already (rarely the case, but alters audio and fails MD5)

--no-utf8-convert

leave extracted text tags in UTF-8 encoding during extraction or display

-o OUTFILE

specify output filename (only if single source file) or target directory (must already exist)

-q

quiet (keep console output to a minimum)

-r, --raw

force raw PCM or DSD audio decode by skipping headers & trailers, results in source-name.raw

--raw-pcm

similar to -r and --raw above except that DSD audio will be converted to 24-bit PCM (8x decimation)

-s

do not decode audio but simply display summary information about WavPack file to stdout

-ss

do not decode audio but simply display summary and tag information about WavPack file to stdout

--skip=[-][sample|hh:mm:ss.ss]

start decoding at specified sample or time index, specifying a ‘-’ causes sample/time to be relative to EOF

-t

copy input file's time stamp to output file(s)

--threads=n

Enable multithreaded operation with n=1 (no threading) to n=12 (max threads). Significantly improves performance of all modes, including verify. Omitting the parameter will select an optimum number of threads.

--until=[+|-][sample|hh:mm:ss.ss]

stop decoding at specified sample or time index, specifying a ‘+’ causes sample/time to be relative to --skip point, specifying a ‘-’ causes sample/time to be relative to EOF

-v

verify source data only (no output file created)

-vv

quick verify (no output, version 5+ files only)

--version

write program version to stdout

-w, --wav

force output to Microsoft RIFF/RF64, extension “.wav”

--w64

force output to Sony Wave64, extension “.w64”

-x “Field”

do not decode audio but instead just extract the specified tag field to stdout

-xx “Field[=file]”

extract the specified tag field into a named file in the same directory as the decoded audio file; optional filename specification may contain ‘%a’ which is replaced with the audio file base name, ‘%t’ replaced with the tag field name (note: comes from data for binary tags) and ‘%e’ replaced with the extension from the binary tag source file (or “txt” for text tag).

-y

yes to overwrite warning; use with caution!

-z[n]

don't set (n = 0 or omitted) or set (n = 1) console title to indicate progress (leaves "WvUnpack Completed")