I thought that an uncompressed FLAC file provides better sound quality than a compressed FLAC file.
To Erik: How to grab the revision before this one https://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=commit;h=fc360735ce4d1aa88a94bfccdd3bea5bdd19a8d6? Regards, Maciej ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik de Castro Lopo" <mle...@mega-nerd.com> To: <flac-dev@xiph.org> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 9:52 AM Subject: [SPAM] Re: [flac-dev] Encode wav to uncompressed flac > Maciej Mączyński wrote: > >> File size is not important for me. I need audio data from wav file and >> metadata in one file. > > But FLAC is lossless! When you convert a WAV to FLAC, you get a file > where the decoded audio data is exactly the same as in the WAV file. > Why would you want a larger file that is exactly the same as the > compressed file? > > Anyway, like I hinted in my previous email, WAV files contain a single > contiguous block of audio data while FLAC contains multiple chunks of > audio data each with its own header. This is true even when the FLAC is > uncompressed. > >> How to encode a wav file to an uncompressed flac file? > > The flac command line parameters are here: > > > https://www.xiph.org/flac/documentation_tools_flac.html#encoding_options > > but I don't see a way if doing it with what's there. > > If you want to mess about with it you can check flac out of git and > grab the revision before this one: > > > https://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=commit;h=fc360735ce4d1aa88a94bfccdd3bea5bdd19a8d6 > > The versions before that commit do what you want. > > Erik > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Erik de Castro Lopo > http://www.mega-nerd.com/ > _______________________________________________ > flac-dev mailing list > flac-dev@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev > _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
