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

[Jose Baulenasr]

Thank you!
But ask you whitout foobar or windows, and whatever.

Simply, A FLAC file, loose quality if it is converted to WAV?

Thanxs ! José.

El El mar, 18 de abr. de 2023 a la(s) 15:06, Martijn van Beurden <
mvanb1 at gmail.com> escribió:

> Hi,
>
> I think questions regarding details of foobar2000 are best asked here:
> https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/board,28.0.html
>
> Kind regards, Martijn van Beurden
>
> Op di 18 apr 2023 om 19:50 schreef Jose Baulenasr
> <josebaulenasricail at gmail.com>:
> >
> > 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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