Ed wrote: > Sorry for the newbie question. I googled WAV to FLAC Conversion and > was brought to this particular thread > http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=11617 on the Sonos forum which > I am not a member of....yet.
Welcome. > My question is, should I even consider creating FLAC versions of my WAV > files and just maintain FLAC files? If so, would dbpoweramp be the > preferred software to do this in a "batch" automated mode? Can I add > the tagging in a batch automated mode also--will that happen as part of > the FLAC to WAV conversion or do I have to add the tags to each > individual file? I do not want to have to manually convert each file > individually as you may agree. You really should convert. As others have said, WAV files can't have tags/meta-data. Flac supports them perfectly. Flac files are lossless. You can get the exact .WAV file back any time you want. Every bit will come back. (sometimes the flac to Wav conversion will result in a file with one block of zero data at the end. This is ignored by all programs that process wave files.) Most of the time this does not happen, and the uncompressed .WAV results are bit identical. There are error detection values inside the flac files, so you can tell if the bits have been changed. That requires additional tools to tell with .WAV files. > I think with the amount of files I have invested in the WAV format that > it wouldn't be worth the time to convert to FLAC. But....I welcome > everyone's advice to convince me otherwise. You can have a program convert them on the fly. No need to touch your CDs again. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
