[Flac] PLEASE HELP - FLAC TO WAV - I HAVE A QUESTION

[brianw]

Hola Jose,

You will need to contact the makers of Windows Foobar and Free Encoder Pack for answers regarding the performance of their software. Many times, software based on flac uses old releases, or forces certain options. The flac developers have no control over how third-party tools use the core features.

If you were to instead install the official flac command-line tool, then you would be able to guarantee that quality will be preserved when converting FLAC to WAV. In fact, there is a checksum in FLAC that can be used to ensure that the output WAV audio matches the original audio (whether the audio came from AIFF or WAV originally, the checksum is for the audio content only, so it works with all formats when uncompressing). Since flac does not support changing bit depth or adding dither, these are not a concern when using the flac command line.

Brian Willoughby


On Apr 18, 2023, at 9:47 AM, Jose Baulenasr <josebaulenasricail at gmail.com> wrote:
> My name is Jose and I live in Buenos Aires - Argentina.
> Dear friends, it's good to be able to contact you, please I hope you can help me...
> 
> I have a question and it is the following:
> 
> When passing a FLAC to WAV; in my case using in Windows Foobar 1.6.16 and with components in their latest versions installed, such as Free Encoder Pack 2022-11-30, as long as the Bits per Sample are not modified, and everything is left automatic, using these settings - Output Bith Dept - AUTO - and Dither - NEVER -, does the WAV resulting from the conversion lose quality?
> 
> Thank you in advance for your future responses.
> 
> Jose.