Compressed DSD support

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Since .dsf/.dff are RAW formats, these file sizes often become huge. For example, a song of 6 minutes duration with DSD256 format is about 1GB.

To reduce disk usage, audiophiles use compression using the WavPack. The WavPack is the best method to compress DSD. It achieves a 50%~60% compression ratio in my library.

I know you don't have any plans to support WavPack, but I would appreciate it if you re-consider WavPack support with this background.

To support WavPack, I guess the following works are required:

• Support reading tag for MinimServer
  • The pure java decoder example should have the metadata parser:
    https://www.wavpack.com/files/JavaWavPac...r_v1.3.zip
    
• Support wvunpack for MinimStreamer
  • WavPack has cli program to decompress files called wvunpack:
    https://www.wavpack.com/wavpack_doc.html
  • I would like to use this program to convert .wv to .dsf on the fly for native streaming(not DoPE) instead of FFmpeg because my AV receiver only supports plain dsf
  • The stream.transcode property need to accept dsf format as output
    

Thank you for the great product and for reading my comment.