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.