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
<[email protected]>:
>
> 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 <[email protected]> 
> 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 <[email protected]> 
>> 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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