Support for Wavpack (.wv) decoding (of compressed DSF)

[Benjamin_Leggett]

Voted. This would halve the size of my music folder.

[Azteca]

I can appreciate the challenges that Danny lays out. It is not an insignificant undertaking, could slow down or complicate some processes, etc.
That said, I would really appreciate this feature. I appreciate being able to play DSF instead of having to convert to PCM but once you get into 100+ SACDs you start wishing you could compress.
While I’m sure the average user is not playing DSF, I think you’ll find many of the dedicated “power users” early adopters are. I’d much rather pay for another year of membership than buy another drive.

[Chris_Gibson]

I, too, would like to see support for WavPack. I am very glad that Roon supports DSF and does not require me to convert to PCM, but I would like to be able to use the lossless compression that WavPack provides. Many of us would save an awful lot of hard drive space, and we would be buying and consuming fewer hard drives.

I’ve added a vote for this feature. Please be sure that you have done so, if you want to see WavPack support. Thanks.

[ModerateDionysianism]

Personally I don’t care much for SACDs, but I have lots of PCM albums compressed in WavPack. It’s rather annoying that the software I pay for can’t even see them, while a freeware player like FB2k had no trouble playing that content years ago.

Please consider implementing this soon, I really don’t feel like converting all this stuff again.

[Simone_Filippini (Simone)]

I’d love to see wavpack support for Roon

[Atriya_Sen]

While both Roon and HQPlayer can upsample in real-time, there exists other software that performs upsampling “offline”, and the results must be stored on disk. In my case that software is PGGB (pggb.io) and I store 24-bit/768Khz PCM files compressed in Wavpack.

I don’t think that “well then, don’t use PGGB and use Roon or HQP for upsampling instead” is a reasonable thing (e.g. for Roon devs) to say. Clearly, I have my reasons for using PGGB offline upsampling instead of HQP real-time upsampling (for offline files, at least), just as some people have their reasons for using HQP upsampling instead of Roon upsampling.

Getting into any of those reasons would not only be off-topic, but should also not be necessary: adding support for a file format can’t be some kind of mammoth task, especially a file format that many people use, and that many free softwares (such as Foobar2000) support out-of-the-box.

Of course, Foobar2000 does not do what Roon does, and I continue so far to use Roon even though it doesn’t support Wavpack, but I would certainly like to see support added. This topic has my vote, but I think that “easy” tasks should need less votes to actually be worked on than “difficult” tasks. If a feature will take very little effort to implement, even if a few of your users are asking for it, why not just get it done and over with?

[Waldemar_Purwin]

Currently, I installed roon for a test phase.
So far I see and tested, roon doesn’t support wv compression files.
My whole music library is upsampled to 24/768k with PGGB OFFLINE (pggb.io).

If posible please implement this soon, so that I can use roon.

[Raul_Acevedo]

PGGB - Offline remastering

PGGB files upscaled to 32 bit/768 kHz definitely sound better than through the Chord M Scaler, especially since PGGB can add the EQ during processing, no headroom management required.

[Dennis_Mutsaers]

wavpack support would be nice, especially for .dsf files.

[Jose-Manuel_Anguita (José-Manuel Anguita)]

Was finally wavpack support added to Roon?

[Forsaked]

Support for this would be awesome.

[Forsaked]

No, it wasn’t yet.

[Roberto_Parish_Orlea (Roberto Parish Orleans de Assis)]

I’m ending my 10 years 90 days trial for this reason and also no support for DSD 48K. I own a huge DSD512 48K library, upsampled with PGGB to Wavpack, and I have to listen to those files, direct to HQPlayer bypassing Roon!

[xuanhua_lin1 (xuanhua lin)]

Please support it.

[Alexander_Kaizer1 (Alexander Kaizer)]

Honestly it’s laughable that an $800 music player, a piece of software whose ONLY job is to play music files, doesn’t have support for all formats like if we were in 1990s.

VLC is free and supports basically any format you can throw at it, and they develop it with less resources, there’s no excuses for this, I’d be shocked if someone at Roon could say the contrary with a straight face! Glad I stayed with Audirvana.

[al141 (alex west)]

i have to agree on this one, wavpack is the only way to compress DSD music, not supporting it means forcing us to buy more storage for those huge files!

[Jeremy_Ianthe]

@vova @DavidS @danny Please take a look at this, I started a subscription only to find out about this, unfortunately this a deal breaker for me, it’s a shame because Roon seems to be just what I’ve been looking for, the Bridge feature and ARC are great, but simple stuff like this matters.

I see there were other people asking for this over the years, and I imagine they would probably be customers if you added this:

WavPack is the reason I haven’t switched to Roon yet

i have a lot of albums that are in 32/384 wave pack i have them in this format for space saving reasons, the idea that i would have to convert them all to another format is just unacceptable, why Roon doesn’t support such a well know and used format is mind boggling, i literally can not think of another player that doesn’t support it, is this something that will change? Also it would be great if when you are in folder view that it would display the same way as when in the album view, showing the…

Play DSF compressed in WAVPACK

Hi, when it will be implemented ?. I’ve a large SACD backup gallery in ISO format and the only way to play with Roon Labs is in DFF or DSF format with is poor space efficiency. WavePAck is the best way to pack DSF files in original quality. Other players like Foobar2000 can play DSF compressed in WAVPACK format as native DSD files. Regards.

Can you please confirm if I should wait for this to be implemented or if I should cancel my subscription?

[Jeremy_Ianthe]

@Atif @alex_h ?

[Francisco_Munoz]

I cancelled my subscription and returned twice. My initial post was almost 10 years ago. I am not going to subscribe again even when this feature is added, because customers are not taken into account unless a sizable number of them are considered. I don’t need to pay a subscription to a service I am not entirely happy with.

[Jeremy_Ianthe]

I know this is not an airport, I don’t have to announce my arrival and departure, but I’m cancelling my subscription for now becaue of this. I was very content with pretty much everything else Roon had to offer, so if this is added in the future, I’ll gladly come back!