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Topic: Is FLAC to WAV using Flac Front end will have any impact on quality? (Read 4301 times) previous topic - next topic
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Is FLAC to WAV using Flac Front end will have any impact on quality?

My first thread here.

I would like to know decoding FLAC to wav using FLAC front end will have any degradation in quality?

Also is there any s/w which can compare the speks of two audio files? Eg FLAC and WAV comparison of same song?

Re: Is FLAC to WAV using Flac Front end will have any impact on quality?

Reply #1
Since flac is lossless, any conversion to an uncompressed format will be perfect.

Spectrograms are good for eyeballing things, but there's no point in using a program to compare those images.

Re: Is FLAC to WAV using Flac Front end will have any impact on quality?

Reply #2
Also is there any s/w which can compare the speks of two audio files? Eg FLAC and WAV comparison of same song?
If you're really paranoid, you could use Audacity, import both versions (FLAC & WAV), invert one of them and then make a mixdown.
If both audio files are identical, the result will be absolute silence.

Re: Is FLAC to WAV using Flac Front end will have any impact on quality?

Reply #3
foobar2000 with the foo_bitcompare component can compare the FLAC and the WAVE files.

I would certainly do that verification. I've had issues about the FLAC frontend not converting successfully despite being set to verify. That was encoding, but given that I cannot trust the application to report errors, I will not trust it to catch unsuccessfully written .wav files either.

Re: Is FLAC to WAV using Flac Front end will have any impact on quality?

Reply #4
foobar2000 with the foo_bitcompare component can compare the FLAC and the WAVE files.

I would certainly do that verification. I've had issues about the FLAC frontend not converting successfully despite being set to verify. That was encoding, but given that I cannot trust the application to report errors, I will not trust it to catch unsuccessfully written .wav files either.

I have tried with foo_bitcompare. Here is the result

All tracks decoded fine, no differences found.

Comparing:
01 - Stayin Alive.flac"
01 - Stayin Alive.wav"
Compared 19133520 samples.
No differences in decoded data found.
Channel peaks: 0.8651123 0.8658447



Total duration processed: 7:13.867
Time elapsed: 0:29.091
14.91x realtime


Does this give assurance that its 100% identical?


 

Re: Is FLAC to WAV using Flac Front end will have any impact on quality?

Reply #6

I have tried with foo_bitcompare. Here is the result

All tracks decoded fine, no differences found.

Does this give assurance that its 100% identical?

Yes, no differences means they are identical.

Thanks a lot dear friend.

Thanks all who replied. Appreciate it