Marcus Johnson wrote: > Isn't the FFmpeg FLAC encoder lossy for 24 bit content too? AFAIK no, ffmpeg encodes 24-bit wavs just fine. But by default ffmpeg decodes to 16 bit. So if you want to decode 24-bit FLAC to WAV with ffmpeg you should do this: ffmpeg -i input.flac -acodec pcm_s24le output.wav