[Flac] uncompressed FLAC

Vladimiro Macedo
Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:56:44 -0000

What dbPowerAmp does is encapsulate the wav file into a FLAC container
without actually compressing it. I guess it can be a bit arguable if you
can technically call it a FLAC file :)
It's like using "Store" mode in RAR, for instance. The idea behing
this
"uncompressed FLAC" is to give the FLAC tagging abilities to people
who
don't want to compress their files. But as WAV is lacking in the tags
department (some workarounds, but most players are not compatible with
those), dbPowerAmp uses the FLAC structure and inputs the uncompressed
data inside.
As far as I understood from the webpage, that's it. I don't think that
option is available with the command-line flac. I think dbPowerAmp (and
this is me purely speculating, mind you) manually builds the file by
adding a FLAC header where the tags can be stored and then inserts the
uncompressed wav in the data field of the file or something equivalent.

Cheers,


On 09/03/2012 14:09, yahoo2 wrote:
> At 09:11 AM 3/8/2012, Martin Kos wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> i have seen that the dbPowerAmp ripping and encoding software supports
a
>> new so-called "FLAC uncompressed" format, e.g.
>>
>>
http://www.audiostream.com/content/dbpoweramps-flac-lossless-uncompressed-wish-come-true
>>
>> i know only the normal flac compression levels from 0 to 8. have i
>> missed an option on the flac comamnd line tool or how could i achieve
>> that on the linux command line flac tool ?
>>
>> greets
>>    KoS
> Uncompressed FLAC is called WAV.
>
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