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

[Jose Baulenasr]

Thank you for your answer.

I ask it This way:

When a FLAC is converted to WAV, is quality lost ?

Thanxs, José.


El El mar, 18 de abr. de 2023 a la(s) 14:18, brianw <brianw at audiobanshee.com>
escribió:

> 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.
>
>
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