It also supports surround sound streams and high sampling rates. Like other lossless compression schemes, the data reduction rate varies with the source, but it is generally between 30% and 70% for typical popular music and somewhat better than that for classical music and other sources with greater dynamic range.

Hybrid mode

WavPack also incorporates a "hybrid" mode, which still provides the features of lossless compression, but creates two files:

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