Convert to uncompressed FLAC?

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February 25, 2019
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Is it possible to convert to uncompressed FLAC? I do not see a way to do this but hopefully, I am wrong. Thank you.

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SteveG_AudioMasters_

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There's no such thing. FLAC is a lossless, but nevertheless compressed audio format. It achieves its compression by removing redundant data, but in a way that can be recovered without loss. For instance, if you had a string of, say, 18 '0's in a file, you could, for instance, express that as 0>18 rather than 000000000000000000. When decoded, perfectly recoverable, but taking up far less space. But if you didn't do this, it wouldn't be FLAC...

ryclark

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But otherwise yes. Audition can certainly save audio in the lossless Flac format with no problems.

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Alan SilberlightAuthor

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Like I said in the first place, there's no such thing as uncompressed FLAC. FLAC level 0 is still compressed, and has to be unpacked, And at 1411 kbps (like all FLAC) it comes out pretty much the same size as a wav file, so there seems to be little to no point in doing it.

Using dB Power Amp, I did my own test. I took a WAV file and converted it to FLAC, first compressed 41% and then uncompressed. Both showed 192 kHZ 24 bit, Bit rate was 9,216 kbps for both . Audio quality for both showed Perfect (Lossless). Yes, I have to admit that compressed and uncompressed yielded the same results in terms of audio quality. However, my thought was that if a program that was free gave you a choice then Adobe Audition, a program for which we pay monthly should also give you this choice.

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