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Alan Silberlight
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February 25, 2019
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Convert to uncompressed FLAC?

  • 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_
    SteveG_AudioMasters_
    Community Expert
    February 25, 2019

    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
    ryclark
    Participating Frequently
    February 25, 2019

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

    ryclark
    ryclark
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    March 6, 2019

    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.


    Was the file size also reduced by 41% in the resulting compressed FLAC compared to the uncompressed one?

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