Originally Posted by
hknutsen
Will converting uncompressed FLAC to compressed FLAC be different from ripping straight to compressed FLAC?
My situation is that I have a lot of albums I ripped from CDs I own a long time ago, but back then I did not know that the compression options for FLAC didn't affect audio quality, so I went with uncompressed. However, as my library of FLAC has built up over the years, I figured I should compress it. Since FLAC is lossless, can I convert my old uncompressed FLACs to compressed (level 8 option) without any loss in quality? It's pretty much like ripping from a CD, right?
The reason I'm asking this is because it would be much quicker to just queue and convert my old FLAC files instead of ripping all my CDs all over again.