WMA Lossless Decode Question

[indybrett]

I have encoded some WMA Lossless files with dBpowerAMP. If I use dBpowerAMP to decode these files back to PCM WAV files, the resulting files pass the MD5 check that was made with the original WAV files.

However...

If I use the Microsoft connamd line utilty to decode these WMA files, the resulting WAV file FAILS the MD5 check.

Can anyone verify this, or explain why this is?

Thanks,

IndyBrett

[Spoon]

Re: WMA Lossless Decode Question

The wav files might have different headers (Waveformatex or Wavformat), hold the mouse over a file to view the header type.

[indybrett]

Re: WMA Lossless Decode Question

Decoding with Foobar2000 gives me a PCM WAV file that passes the MD5 check, as does decoding with dBpowerAMP. I feel more secure now

I don't mind having only one encoder, but I like to have more than one decoder that gives the same results.

I am now converting my 400GB FLAC collection to WMA lossless. Why? I really like MS Mediaplayer 10. It has the library/database/player interface that I have been wanting.

Just in case, I still have most of the FLAC files backed up on DVD-R.