Flac Assumptions

[bhjazz]

I'm startin down the rippin road. I need to unload a batch of older CDs and am ripping them with EAC.

My assumptions for using flac.exe to do this are:

* There is no upsampling feature I can use with EAC (from 16/44 to 24/96)

* The flac file format should be fairly future-safe.

* I can play flac files on many DACs that I may be able to buy today.

I am also assuming that when I read about others here with a 24/96 flac file that the file was first a 24/96 WAV which was then compressed to 24/96 flac. Is that correct? (Or is there a way to do this in a batch process maybe with Adobe Audition? Probably. )

My real question is: are my assumptions correct?

Thanks.

Brian

Edited October 10, 2011 by bhjazz

[grawk]

why in the world would you want to upsample as you compress the files?

As to the dac question, flac is decoded before it gets sent to the dac.

[roadtonowhere08]

Every lossless file that I have is FLAC. It is as future-proof as it gets. Besides, if it does go by the wayside in the distant future, there will be batch converters that will perfectly convert them pain free. Since it is all lossless, the log files are still valid, and all you have to do is change the file extension in the .cue files with notepad for them to be good as well. There might be batch converters for this as well, but I am not aware of any.

If you upsample the FLAC itself, you have ruined the file as far as I'm concerned. Do what you want to it on the fly, but the point of archiving CDs in FLAC is to have perfect copies on your hard drive. Use SOX and foobar and upsample all you want, but leave the actual file alone.

[bhjazz]

why in the world would you want to upsample as you compress the files?

Simplicity. Upsample the wav file first, then compress. I thought there might be a way to create a 24/96 flac file with a single command.

[CarlSeibert]

I don't think upsampling the file will accomplish anything. Let the playback software or your DAC do that. What's more, you wouldn't want to do that anyway, for archival reasons. You want the file to be recoverable as an exact copy of the original. (Your very valid future-proof concern)

[bhjazz]

Yes. Yes, I like that. Mixing archiving with upsampling...Just pick 1, Brian!