[Flac-dev] Back & Fourth

[Tor Martin Kristiansen]

Hello Dave,

Yes you can do that. The thing is, you dont cut out data as you say,
but you compress it, like when you compress files with zip or rar or
whatever you use. So therefore the wav will be exact same as the
original after you decompress it.. provided it didnt have any metadata
chunks (since flac skips those.. these arent audio data anyway).

-- 
Best regards,
 Tor                            mailto:tmartk at online.no
 

Sunday, September 8, 2002, 4:57:31 PM, you wrote:

DC> So let me get this straight...

DC> I can put a CD in my computer and copy it to my hard drive as a wav files.
DC> Then by using FLAC to "compress" said wavs into .flac files.
DC> Resulting in approx. half the file size.

DC> Then later I can convert the FLAC files back to wav and
DC> the end up with the EXACT wav file I had before ?

DC> If this is the case, then great, but can you really cut out half the data,
DC> then convert back and end up with the EXACT wav file from before?

DC> -dave