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Quick Question: FLAC <-> Wav <-> MP3

post #1 of 6
4/27/07 at 3:05am
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Is it possible to convert a wav file to flac and mp3 and wav/flac?
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post #2 of 6
4/27/07 at 4:22am
Sure!
Any audio format/codec can be converted to any other format/codec.

Just beware that you loose audio data when going to MP3, which you never get back when decoding to PCM.
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post #3 of 6
4/27/07 at 12:22pm
All conversions are possible just remember lossy to lossy (mp3 -> mp3) to is not recommended because of degenerative encoding.

Foobar2000/dbpoweramp are popular for transcoding.
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post #4 of 6
4/27/07 at 12:56pm
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Okay thank you
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post #5 of 6
5/1/07 at 3:50pm
One very unlikely to be aware of. According to the flac docs, there is apparently a non-zero chance that flac can result in a non-bit perfect compression. That surprised me! The canonical flac encoder has a verify option that tells it to do parallel decoding and bit comparison while encoding. Since it merely required a simple -V option, and encoding speed isn't too important to me, I always use it. And have never had a mismatch. But for me it's important since I consider my flac collection to be a backup for my CDs. But I use "the" flac encoder under linux, so I don't know if it's available elsewhere.

-=A=-
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post #6 of 6
5/1/07 at 3:58pm
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Originally Posted by Amarok View Post
One very unlikely to be aware of. According to the flac docs, there is apparently a non-zero chance that flac can result in a non-bit perfect compression.
This is not true. You are not reading the documentation correctly.

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The canonical flac encoder has a verify option that tells it to do parallel decoding and bit comparison while encoding. Since it merely required a simple -V option, and encoding speed isn't too important to me, I always use it.
The -v option is just used to verify the encoding, ensuring that there have been no disk/memory errors. Its presence does not mean FLAC is sometime not bitperfect any more than the -v option in "zip" or "gzip" means that those programs sometimes fail.
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