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                      WAVPACK SPECIAL CASES TEST
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This folder contains various test files that don't fall into any specific
category. These may be files that exercise some special WavPack feature
or they may be files that test decoding modes that are not yet used by
any WavPack encoder (but may be some day). All the files contain an md5
sum so that they may be easily verified.

false_stereo.wv:
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This file is from a stereo source where most of the samples are identical
between the left and right channels (i.e. actually mono) and was encoded
using the --optimize-mono command-line switch introduced in the 4.40
version of WavPack. There are three spots in the file where the channels
become different, and so the file also tests the decoder's ability to
shift in and out of the mono encoding mode. This mode was introduced
after the initial 4.0 specification, and some decoders based on old
versions of the code may not play this. 

zero_lsbs.wv:
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This file contains large runs of samples that have zero in the LSB. Versions
of WavPack later than 4.3 detect this case automatically and take this into
consideration. Versions before that would only detect this case when using
the -x switch, and would therefore not compress this file as well. All
decoders should decode this file properly.

win_executable.wv:
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This WavPack file contains a special header that allows it to become a
self-extracting executable on Windows computers. This is done by simply
changing the extension to .exe and double clicking on it. However, as
long as the file has the .wv extension, it still should be fully playable
by WavPack players which must be able to simply skip the prepended header.

cue_sheet.wv:
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Embedded cuesheets for CD image files are supported in WavPack and are
stored in the APEv2 tag. However, the support for them in the command-line
programs is limited to adding them to the tag during WavPack file creation
and restoring them when the WavPack files are unpacked. There is currently
no support (for example) of automatically unpacking specified tracks from an
image or applying ReplayGain information to individual tracks.

This file is a CD image with an embedded cuesheet. To avoid copyright
infringement most of the actual audio has been silenced and only the music
around the track breaks is remaining. This cuesheet also has ReplayGain
information (both album and track) added to the cuesheet using REM statements
(by foobar2000) and the titles of some of the tracks include non-ASCII
characters stored using UTF-8 coding (which is the standard for APEv2 tags).