So let me get this straight... I can put a CD in my computer and copy it to my hard drive as a wav files. Then by using FLAC to "compress" said wavs into .flac files. Resulting in approx. half the file size. Then later I can convert the FLAC files back to wav and the end up with the EXACT wav file I had before ? If this is the case, then great, but can you really cut out half the data, then convert back and end up with the EXACT wav file from before? -dave
Hello Dave, Yes you can do that. The thing is, you dont cut out data as you say, but you compress it, like when you compress files with zip or rar or whatever you use. So therefore the wav will be exact same as the original after you decompress it.. provided it didnt have any metadata chunks (since flac skips those.. these arent audio data anyway). -- Best regards, Tor mailto:tmartk@online.no Sunday, September 8, 2002, 4:57:31 PM, you wrote: DC> So let me get this straight... DC> I can put a CD in my computer and copy it to my hard drive as a wav files. DC> Then by using FLAC to "compress" said wavs into .flac files. DC> Resulting in approx. half the file size. DC> Then later I can convert the FLAC files back to wav and DC> the end up with the EXACT wav file I had before ? DC> If this is the case, then great, but can you really cut out half the data, DC> then convert back and end up with the EXACT wav file from before? DC> -dave
--- Dave Costa <dave@happeworld.com> wrote:> So let me get this straight... > > I can put a CD in my computer and copy it to my hard drive as a wav > files. > Then by using FLAC to "compress" said wavs into .flac files. > Resulting in approx. half the file size. > > Then later I can convert the FLAC files back to wav and > the end up with the EXACT wav file I had before ? > > If this is the case, then great, but can you really cut out half the > data, > then convert back and end up with the EXACT wav file from before?The audio data will be exact. FLAC stores only the 'fmt ' subchunk (which is metadata) and the 'data' subchunk (which is the audio data). It does not store other subchunks. If your wave file is one 'fmt ' subchunk followed by one 'data' chunk, the decoded wave file will be identical to the original. Josh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com