[flac-dev] Encode wav to uncompressed flac

[Maciej Mączyński]

I thought that an uncompressed FLAC file provides better sound quality than 
a compressed FLAC file.

To Erik: How to grab the revision before this one 
https://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=commit;h=fc360735ce4d1aa88a94bfccdd3bea5bdd19a8d6?

Regards,
Maciej

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik de Castro Lopo" <mle+la at mega-nerd.com>
To: <flac-dev at xiph.org>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 9:52 AM
Subject: [SPAM] Re: [flac-dev] Encode wav to uncompressed flac


> Maciej Mączyński wrote:
>
>> File size is not important for me. I need audio data from wav file and
>> metadata in one file.
>
> But FLAC is lossless! When you convert a WAV to FLAC, you get a file
> where the decoded audio data is exactly the same as in the WAV file.
> Why would you want a larger file that is exactly the same as the
> compressed file?
>
> Anyway, like I hinted in my previous email, WAV files contain a single
> contiguous block of audio data while FLAC contains multiple chunks of
> audio data each with its own header. This is true even when the FLAC is
> uncompressed.
>
>> How to encode a wav file to an uncompressed flac file?
>
> The flac command line parameters are here:
>
> 
> https://www.xiph.org/flac/documentation_tools_flac.html#encoding_options
>
> but I don't see a way if doing it with what's there.
>
> If you want to mess about with it you can check flac out of git and
> grab the revision before this one:
>
> 
> https://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=commit;h=fc360735ce4d1aa88a94bfccdd3bea5bdd19a8d6
>
> The versions before that commit do what you want.
>
> Erik
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