Re: 32bit WAV to 32bit FLAC, what are my options?
Reply #2 –
Thanks.
I'd like to put the experiment of the 24-192 conversion here.
Funny enough, WavPack encoder assigned 32-bit, but SoX is saying the precision is 25-bit.
So in this conversion, I think I lost just 1-bit, and didn't resample a thing. Right?
This is the least to make it compatible to my hardware. Now it can go to FLAC et all.
But won't I lose simply too much samples going from 192kHz to 48/44.1kHz?
D:\wav\hunting>sox -S -V 32.wav -b 24 hunting-24-192.wav
sox: SoX v14.4.2
sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'
sox WARN wav: wave header missing extended part of fmt chunk
Input File : '32.wav'
Channels : 2
Sample Rate : 192000
Precision : 25-bit
Duration : 00:37:26.51 = 431330027 samples ~ 168488 CDDA sectors
File Size : 3.45G
Bit Rate : 12.3M
Sample Encoding: 32-bit Floating Point PCM
Endian Type : little
Reverse Nibbles: no
Reverse Bits : no
Output File : 'hunting-24-192.wav'
Channels : 2
Sample Rate : 192000
Precision : 24-bit
Duration : 00:37:26.51 = 431330027 samples ~ 168488 CDDA sectors
Sample Encoding: 24-bit Signed Integer PCM
Endian Type : little
Reverse Nibbles: no
Reverse Bits : no
Comment : 'Processed by SoX'
sox INFO sox: effects chain: input 192000Hz 2 channels
sox INFO sox: effects chain: output 192000Hz 2 channels
In:100% 00:37:26.51 [00:00:00.00] Out:431M [ | ] Hd:2.5 Clip:0
Done.
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