wvunpack (1)

wvunpack [-options] INFILE... [-o OUTFILE]

wvunpack decodes WavPack files back to their uncompressed wav or raw form using the options provided. Unless overridden with the -o switch, the resulting filename will be source-name.wav (or source-name.raw when -r used). Multiple WavPack input files may be specified resulting in multiple output files, and in that case -o may be used to specify an alternate target directory. Stdin and stdout may be specified with “-”. WavPack files are generally created with the wavpack program.

-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”)

-d

delete source file if successful (use with caution!)

-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 in repository for format 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)

--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 exist)

-q

quiet (keep console output to a minimum)

-r

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

-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

-t

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

--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)

--version

write program version to stdout

-w

regenerate fresh wav header (ingore RIFF data stored in WavPack file)

-x “Field”

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

-xx “Field[=file]”

extract the specified tag field to named file in same directory as 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

don't set console title to indicate progress (prevents console from staying "WvUnpack Completed")

wavpack(1), wvgain(1)

Please visit www.wavpack.com for more information

This manual page was written by Sebastian Dröge [email protected] and David Bryant [email protected]. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the BSD License.

Sebastian Dröge <[email protected]>

Original author

David Bryant <[email protected]>

Updates

Copyright © 2005 Sebastian Dröge

Copyright © 2013 David Bryant