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[Announcement] WAV Format Torrent Removal | WAV Torrents Will Not Be Allowed Any More

After discussion in the management group, we will remove support for WAV format. The expected clearance period is two months. The reasons for the decision are as follows (because WAV can only come from CD, the scope of comparison between the two parties is limited to CD media):
1. The overall quality of FLAC resources is better than WAV: in FLAC format, 100% Log seeds account for about 85% of the total; In the WAV format, 100% Log seeds account for about 31% of the total.
2. The existence of the whole track WAV causes substantial redundancy of resources: FLAC and WAV of the same version of the album constitute the essential duplication of content. We promote the rules of repetition and substitution to prevent multiple identical content from appearing, to avoid scattered seeding, and to improve the download experience. Users can transcode resources into any format they prefer after downloading.
3. FLAC greatly saves space:
the compression rate can reach 60% of WAV, which means saving 40% of the size. For our current token policy, FLAC is obviously more popular. For a 300 M FLAC album, if WAV is used, the size will probably exceed 512 M. The token is the difference between one and two. Said to be an essential difference.
For a site like Dolphin that is in short supply of buffers, even the size of the scanned image must be limited, and even the dozens of MB of space to be scanned must be finely cut, so why not cut the size of the WAV? FLAC can also be transcoded after downloading. WAV (in fact, in the process of playing, it is first transcoded to WAV and then played), except that WAV has obvious advantages over FLAC of the same quality when downloading downloads, and other advantages are almost equal to none. But since it is to download, why not download 24 bit resources?
Smaller files mean earlier downloads and users can enjoy the music they want faster.
4. Track FLAC is beneficial to extract different covers or covers of the same track from multiple albums: the whole track is extremely inconvenient to search for singles within an album. If you hear a good song and want to search for all the cover versions of the existing album on the computer, the entire track cannot be searched at all, but with global search software (such as Everything), you can easily search for all the songs of a certain song. Version.
5. The number of WAV is small: there are about 57,000 seeds in the whole station, only about 1,200 WAV seeds, and more than 25,000 CD FLAC seeds.
6. Unable to review the correctness of the track name information in the whole track WAV: We require that the FLAC file name is correct, otherwise it is the problem file name, but we cannot review the content in the Cue, so there is no way to properly manage it. If the irresponsible publisher keeps the title of Cue's track as "Track 01" and "Track 02", it will bring a lot of trouble to the downloader. In addition, users must learn to correctly convert the Cue with problematic encoding to ensure smooth playback of WAV, which undoubtedly makes its use threshold higher than the FLAC track that is click-and-play.
7. It is difficult to compare versions of the whole track WAV resources, which makes it difficult to accurately manage the seeds: When comparing versions, three indicators need to be referred to: ToC, peak level, and the length of the gap before the track. In the current latest EAC version, the whole track Log only provides ToC, and the CRC, peak level, and pre-track gap of each song cannot be displayed, which is a major disadvantage for the implementation of repetition and substitution. We can see that some albums have very close ToCs, but the peak levels are so different because of the remastering that they cannot be considered the same version. But if we can't see the peak level, do we think it's repeating or not? Not to mention the problem of the gap overflow in the front of the audio track that we found before. How can this problem be seen regardless of the track?
8. Save management energy: The resource format is unified, which is easy to compare and manage; the whole track grabbing resources can be replaced, which is conducive to further optimization of resources and improvement of site vitality.
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Since all WAV resources will be deleted, after being deleted or replaced, the compensation for the corresponding publisher is 2,000 points for each WAV seed. If it is a self-captured WAV, it will be increased to 5,000 points.

For WAVs with equivalent FLACs, it is directly regarded as duplicate seed deletion. There is no equivalent FLAC, and the policy is as follows:
For non-prohibited resources, any user can download, transcode, and publish
; release.

And each user who completes the above operation and passes the inspection, please return the permalink (PL) of the seed to this post, and each can get 3000 points. When replying, please pay attention to one post per person, and paste one link per line. We will issue points and update the post status after the torrent check is passed.

For the transcoding method, please refer to the section Editing Metadata and Transcoding to Fractional FLAC in the foobar2000 User Guide.

As of this announcement, new WAV torrents are no longer permitted.