[flac-dev] Encode wav to uncompressed flac

[neheb at hushmail.com]

Compressing any kind of data losslessly does not reduce its quality. This includes FLAC, zip files, or anything else.

If you're really adamant about raw WAV files and metadata, foobar2000 has support for writing RIFF tags to a WAV file, allowing some tagging capability.

On 12/2/2013 at 1:42 AM, "Maciej Mączyński" <maciejmacz at poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
>
>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=fc360735ce4d1aa88a94bfc
>cdd3bea5bdd19a8d6?
>
>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_op
>tions
>>
>> 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=fc360735ce4d1aa88a94bfc
>cdd3bea5bdd19a8d6
>>
>> The versions before that commit do what you want.
>>
>> Erik
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