Beta: FLAC R5.2

[Spoon]

Re: Beta: FLAC R5.2

Just looked again and it is still a problem - I tested with a FLAC file and it decoded it fine - but flac.exe cannot decode that file - so I have some bytes swapping somewhere. It will be fixed tomorrow.

[Spoon]

Re: Beta: FLAC R5.2

Finally now fixed, download link as before - read the new warning on that page.

[roytam]

Re: Beta: FLAC R5.2

Finally now fixed, download link as before - read the new warning on that page.

Thank you for your hardworking! :smile2:

[ailean]

Re: Beta: FLAC R5.2

Yep thanks Spoon, this sorted it out for me too.

[Spoon]

Re: Beta: FLAC R5.2

Fully Released

[Samizdat]

Re: Beta: FLAC R5.2

If I have a .wma file of 1411 kbps quality, which I encode to .wav, thereby reducing quality to 320 kbps, but raising sample rate from 16-bit to 24-bit (then encoding the .wav to .flac for uploading to the Internet Archive's audio museum), have I in fact gained or lost quality?

Kindly flesh out the theory/practice, if you would. Great thanks!

(See http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-c...ge=upload_info the Internet Archive riot act for background).

p.s. I'm using FLAC Frontend. Could Beta FLAC R5.2 be the missing link for me here?

[ChristinaS]

Re: Beta: FLAC R5.2

You cannot gain quality - at most you can hope is to preserve it.

Once you've gone to 320kbps you have reduced the quality. But you say that is wav at 320 - you must mean by that mp3 or mpeg layer 3 compressed wav.

If you need flac, why don't you go directly from your wma to flac? The 24-bit is not going to do anyhting except use up more space.

[Samizdat]

Re: Beta: FLAC R5.2

Excellent advice, ChristinaS, thanks! I had already done as you suggested, but I'm a hopeless tinker.