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Lossless Audio Compression => FLAC => Topic started by: Emiliano55 on 2005-10-07 16:59:39

Title: Decompressing FLAC files to WAVs
Post by: Emiliano55 on 2005-10-07 16:59:39
Hi, I'm kinda new with loseless codecs. I downloaded an album in FLAC and i want to decompress it to WAVs files. What's the best tool to make this ?
I know about DBpowerAMP, in fact i use it to convert other audio types, but I don't know if its good decompressing FLAC files. If not, what others programs do you recommend ?

Thanx!
Title: Decompressing FLAC files to WAVs
Post by: Shade[ST] on 2005-10-07 17:03:26
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Hi, I'm kinda new with loseless codecs. I downloaded an album in FLAC and i want to decompress it to WAVs files. What's the best tool to make this ?
I know about DBpowerAMP, in fact i use it to convert other audio types, but I don't know if its good decompressing FLAC files. If not, what others programs do you recommend ?

Thanx!
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FLAC is lossless, therefore any decoder which does not decode to the original wav files would be flawed;  dBPowerAmp should work fine, foobar2000 can do it, too.  Winamp with plugins should be ok..

etc, etc..
Title: Decompressing FLAC files to WAVs
Post by: krmathis on 2005-10-07 17:17:45
FLAC 1.1.2 (http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html). 
Title: Decompressing FLAC files to WAVs
Post by: Emiliano55 on 2005-10-07 18:33:48
cool, i will use the flac frontend to decompress it, seems more professional than dbpoweramp

thanx.
Title: Decompressing FLAC files to WAVs
Post by: tev777 on 2005-10-07 20:05:43
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cool, i will use the flac frontend to decompress it, seems more professional than dbpoweramp

thanx.
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Might you care to elaborate on that comment? In what way is it more professional?
Title: Decompressing FLAC files to WAVs
Post by: XH42 on 2005-10-07 20:41:00
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cool, i will use the flac frontend to decompress it, seems more professional than dbpoweramp

thanx.
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Might you care to elaborate on that comment? In what way is it more professional?
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Give him a break, I'm sure he's didn't meant the word "professional", Flac frontend it's a easier tool to usefro decoding to wav, by no means of "professional"
(unless you refers to as a bundle with flac) 
Title: Decompressing FLAC files to WAVs
Post by: skamp on 2005-10-07 20:41:03
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Ssssshh... you're gonna kill his placebo effect...
Title: Decompressing FLAC files to WAVs
Post by: Emiliano55 on 2005-10-07 20:43:21
I said that just becouse the flac frontend uses the original DOS window to decode the flac files, not just a simple bar like dbpoweramp, besides its an "official" FLAC tool. Anyways, it was just a personal comment, it doesn't mean its better or worse, i guess its the same though.


edit: hey, don't kill the newbie 
Title: Decompressing FLAC files to WAVs
Post by: kwanbis on 2005-10-07 21:30:23
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I said that just becouse the flac frontend uses the original DOS window to decode the flac files, not just a simple bar like dbpoweramp, besides its an "official" FLAC tool. Anyways, it was just a personal comment, it doesn't mean its better or worse, i guess its the same though.

if you ask me, the "simple bar", is more profesional than the DOS (lookings wise)...
Title: Decompressing FLAC files to WAVs
Post by: rutra80 on 2005-10-07 22:58:30
Emiliano, the word is: GEEKY
Title: Decompressing FLAC files to WAVs
Post by: Emiliano55 on 2005-10-07 23:08:14
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Emiliano, the word is: GEEKY
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hehe, yeah maybe you're right 
Title: Re: Decompressing FLAC files to WAVs
Post by: Replica9000 on 2023-02-08 11:36:47
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cool, i will use the flac frontend to decompress it, seems more professional than dbpoweramp

thanx.
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Might you care to elaborate on that comment? In what way is it more professional?

I wouldn't use the term professional, but I've always trusted the CLI tools are doing exactly what they're supposed to do, while many GUI tools are focused on being pretty, and don't always behave as expected.
Title: Re: Decompressing FLAC files to WAVs
Post by: Roseval on 2023-02-08 11:48:16
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i want to decompress it to WAVs files

You can do so but you run the risk of loosing your tags. Tagging support for WAV is haphazard.
Observe that all computer audio formats makes no sense to a DAC. A DAC doesn't play FLAC, MP3, etc.
The moment you select a file in a media player and press play, the media player invokes the right decoder. It will decode e.g. FLAC (or any other format) to linear PCM. Hence what you attempt to do manual, will by design done for you by the media player.
Title: Re: Decompressing FLAC files to WAVs
Post by: Kartoffelbrei on 2023-02-08 13:47:35
my brethren, please scroll up and look at the date ... i cant XD
Title: Re: Decompressing FLAC files to WAVs
Post by: spoon on 2023-02-08 14:27:55
More professional? ;)

https://www.dbpoweramp.com/developer-cli-encoder.htm