[peel] Flac files

[Eddie Duffy]

Alan,

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, and it's the 'lossless' 
that's important here. Yes, WAVs will be larger, but (unlike in the case 
of MP3) converting a WAV to a FLAC involves no loss of quality. So he 
WAV and FLAC files you create from Audacity will be *exactly* 
equivalent. A FLAC is effectively like a zipped WAV, but with the 
advantage that it can be played directly, without any need for 
decompression.

HTH,

Eddie.

alanforduk wrote:
>
> As someone who doesn't know their Flac from their elbow, and who
> thought ogg vorbis was a planet off of Dr Who, I seem to remember it
> was decided that Flac was to be the format of choice for storing shows.
> I have noticed that, when using Audacity, Wav files are larger than
> Flacs. Does this not mean they're better? Or are we going for some sort
> of compromise between quality and file size.
> Or what?
>
> Alan
>
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