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[DavidHB]

(26-10-2017 07:52)ClausDK Wrote:  David, it's just that it seems logical to me that once you have compressed the WAV file to a FLAC that contains less information (less bytes) then whatever has disappeared in this process will be missing in the playback, with an audible effect (in theory). Will the transcoding to wav during playback create a wav format with estimated or interpolated values, or will the transcoded signal be 100% bit perfect compared to the original wav file? How would the transcoding know exactly what to add to compensate for what was taken away when compressing from wav to flac ?

As Simon said, nothing is lost, so the stream is bit perfect, just as a unzipped file is bit perfect compared with the original. The compressed file contains all the information needed to restore it to its original state.

(26-10-2017 07:52)ClausDK Wrote:  I'm not saying that you are wrong, not at all, it's just that it seems a bit against logics to me. I do however know that many files (not all) can be compressed to .zip files and the likes and later expanded to the exact original content. It might be the same here.

What you are feeling is not that it is against logic (because the logic supports what Simon and I are saying), but that the process feels counter-intuitive. I can understand that feeling. But I do assure you that, in converting your files to FLAC, you will not lose any data at all, and they can be fully converted back to WAV at any time.

David